State ex rel. Sawyer v. Kelly
Decision Date | 08 April 1932 |
Docket Number | 31385 |
Citation | 48 S.W.2d 864,330 Mo. 143 |
Parties | The State of Missouri ex rel. Elmer Sawyer, Relator, v. Frank Kelly, Judge of the Circuit Court of Cape Girardeau County |
Court | Missouri Supreme Court |
Preliminary ruling made permanent.
J Grant Frye for relator.
Westhues C. Cooley and Fitzsimmons, CC., concur.
Relator, Elmer Sawyer, seeks in this proceeding to prohibit respondent, Honorable Frank Kelly, Judge of the Circuit Court of Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, from holding a certain hearing, wherein respondent threatens to make inquiry of certain affiants, as to the truth, or falsity, or knowledge of affiants' statements, made in affidavits in support of an application, for a change of venue in a criminal cause wherein relator is the defendant.
Relator was charged, by an information filed April 4, 1931, in the Circuit Court of Cape Girardeau County, with the crime of forgery. At relator's trial, April 24, the jury was unable to agree upon a verdict. This resulted in a mistrial and the cause was reset for trial July 1, 1931. June 6, 1931, relator filed an application for a change of venue, alleging prejudice against him, on the part of the inhabitants of the county, supported by five affidavits of citizens residing in different neighborhoods of the county. Cape Girardeau is a county of less than seventy-five thousand inhabitants. After the application was filed, the circuit court was not in session until June 22, 1931. Relator, on that date, asked respondent to pass on the application for a change of venue. Respondent refused to do so and ordered subpoenas to be issued and directed to the affiants, who had signed the affidavits in support of the application, commanding them to appear before the circuit court on June 29, 1931, for the purpose of being examined with reference to the affidavits. Thus far the facts are not in dispute.
On June 24, relator, by his attorney, J. Grant Frye, again called upon respondent to pass upon the application and to either grant or refuse the same. What transpired from then on respondent has embodied in his return to our preliminary rule. The transcript of the court reporter reveals the following:
Respondent's position in this matter may be gathered from the return filed, wherein he says:
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