2011 Missouri Revised Statutes
TITLE XXXVI STATUTORY ACTIONS AND TORTS
Chapter 532 Habeas Corpus
Section 532.030. Application, to what court first made.

532.030. When a person applies for the benefit of this chapter, who is held in custody on a charge of crime or misdemeanor, his application, in the first instance, shall be to a judge of the circuit court for the county in which the applicant is held in custody, other than a municipal judge; and upon every application of the kind aforesaid, the applicant shall cause reasonable notice of the time and place of making the application to be given to the circuit or prosecuting attorney for the county in which the application is to be made, if at the time thereof such attorney be in the county, and upon such notice, it shall be the duty of such attorney to attend upon the hearing of such application on behalf of the state.

(RSMo 1939 1658, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)

Prior revisions: 1929 1494; 1919 1944; 1909 2509

Effective 1-2-79

(1975) This section superseded as to writs of habeas corpus by supreme court rule 84.22. Reiter v. Camp (A.), 518 S.W.2d 82.

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