STATE EX REL. GIBSON v. GRIMM

No. 59387.

540 S.W.2d 17 (1976)

STATE of Missouri ex rel. O. J. GIBSON, Jr., and Cape Girardeau Bar Association, Relators, v. The Honorable Stanley A. GRIMM, Judge, Circuit Court of Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, Respondent. STATE of Missouri, Appellant, v. Michael Wayne PROBST, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Missouri, En Banc.

Rehearing Denied September 13, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack L. Oliver, Cape Girardeau, for relators.

John C. Danforth, Atty. Gen. by Daniel P. Card and Robert Sommers, Asst. Attys. Gen., for appellants.


DONNELLY, Justice.

These cases involve the question whether counsel appointed to represent indigents in misdemeanor cases shall be required to serve without compensation.

In State ex rel. O. J. Gibson v. Grimm, Relators seek to prohibit Respondent from holding Gibson in contempt of court. In State v. Probst, the State appeals from an order taxing the costs in a misdemeanor case against the State.

On April 10, 1975, O. J. Gibson, Jr. was...

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