Supreme Court of Missouri November 26, 2013, No. SC 92229 (State v. Honeycutt)

lead-opinion

ZEL M. FISCHER, Judge.

This Court holds article I, section 13’s ban on the passage of any law retrospective in its operation does not apply to criminal laws. Section 571.070.1(1)1 is a criminal law, and as such, the circuit court erred in dismissing the charge against Ho-neycutt on the ground that the statute was unconstitutionally retrospective as applied to him.