STATE v. CONNETT

No. 58802.

525 S.W.2d 326 (1975)

STATE of Missouri ex rel. Bill WOODS et al., Relators, v. The Honorable Frank D. CONNETT, Jr., Judge of the Circuit Court, Fifth Judicial Circuit of Missouri, Division Number Three, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Missouri, En Banc.

July 14, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald M. Sokol, Public Defender, Fifth Judicial Circuit of Mo., Theodore M. Kranitz, Kranitz & Kranitz, Richard W. Mason, St. Joseph, for relators.

Richard A. Heider, Pros. Atty., St. Joseph, for respondent.


BARDGETT, Judge.

This is an original action in prohibition and involves the question of whether or not respondent, a circuit judge, proceeded under the correct statutes when he convened a special grand jury in Buchanan County, and the validity of some twenty-eight indictments returned by that grand jury on May 31, 1974.

Pursuant to the indictments, warrants were issued for the arrest of relators on June 3, 1974. On June 5, 1974, or shortly thereafter, relators...

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