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STATE EX REL. DANFORTH v. LEVITT

Nos. 59236, 59248.

540 S.W.2d 19 (1976)

STATE ex rel. John C. DANFORTH, Attorney General, et al., Relators, v. Hon. Julian M. LEVITT, Judge, Respondent. Joseph H. MOORE et al., Respondents, v. STATE of Missouri et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of Missouri, En Banc.

Rehearing Denied September 13, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. Danforth, Atty. Gen. by Daniel P. Card, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Gordon D. Gee, Stinson, Mag, Thomson, McEvers & Fizzell, Kansas City, for relators.

William F. Mounts, Joseph H. Moore, Logan, Hentzen, Haitbrink & Moore, Kansas City, for respondents.

Michael A. Gross and Mary Ann Weems, Clayton, Willard Bunch, Russell D. Jacobson and Stanley Christopher, Kansas City, for amicus curiae.

DONNELLY, Justice.

Attorneys Joseph H. Moore and William E. Mounts, both licensed to practice law in the State of Missouri, filed a petition for declaratory judgment in the Circuit Court of Jackson County against the State of Missouri. In said suit, they alleged that they had been appointed to represent, and had represented, indigents charged with the commission of misdemeanors, and asked that Jackson County or the State...

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