STATE EX REL. CARVER v. WHIPPLE

No. 61810.

608 S.W.2d 410 (1980)

STATE of Missouri ex rel. Steven Lee CARVER, Relator, v. The Honorable Dean WHIPPLE, Judge, Circuit Court, Laclede County, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Missouri, En Banc.

December 15, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth M. Romines, Clayton, Mark Kempton, Sedalia, for relator.

Missouri Assoc. of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Philip H. Schwartz, Kansas City, for amicus curiae.

William G. Johnson, Versailles, for respondent.


RENDLEN, Judge.

Prohibition, to restrain respondent, the Honorable Dean Whipple, Judge of the Circuit Court of Laclede County, from arraigning relator on a charge of murder first degree. Our jurisdiction to determine original remedial writs is found in Art. V, § 4(1), Mo.Const.

On May 3, 1976, Steven Carver, relator herein, and Robert B. Newman were jointly charged with capital murder of a woman shot during a holdup of Nolting's Department Store in Stover...

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