STATE EX REL. WESTFALL v. CRANDALL

No. 42992.

610 S.W.2d 45 (1980)

STATE ex rel. George R. WESTFALL, Relator, v. Honorable William H. CRANDALL, Jr., Judge, Twenty-First Judicial Circuit, St. Louis County, Missouri, Division 1, Respondent.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Division Three.

Motion for Rehearing and/or Transfer Denied December 12, 1980.

Application to Transfer Denied February 9, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George Westfall and James Cook, Clayton, for relator.

Leonard J. Frankel, Clayton, for respondent.


Motion for Rehearing and/or Transfer to Supreme Court Denied December 12, 1980.

REINHARD, Judge.

Relator, the State of Missouri, seeks to obtain a peremptory writ of mandamus to compel respondent judge to order Thomas Michael Dixon to submit to a mental examination by a doctor of the state's choice. The alleged need for the writ arose out of the following set of facts.

On December 6, 1979, the state charged Thomas Michael Dixon (hereinafter referred...

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