State v. Rowlen
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Jackson Criminal Court.—Hon. John W. WOEEORD-j Judge. (1) The court should have sustained appellant’s motion to quash the indictment. In all criminal prosecutions the accused shall have the right to demand the nature and cause of the accusation. (Bill of Rights, sec. 22.) In indictments for felonies greater strictness is required than for misdemeanors.
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Appeal from Jackson Criminal Court.—Hon. John W. WOEEORD-j Judge. (1) The court should have sustained appellant’s motion to quash the indictment. In all criminal prosecutions the accused shall have the right to demand the nature and cause of the accusation. (Bill of Rights, sec. 22.) In indictments for felonies greater strictness is required than for misdemeanors. State v. Pemberton, 30 Mo. 376. Tet in misdemeanors, where the cause of the prosecution is a written instrument, such as libel or obscene literature and the like, a copy of the instrument must be set out. State v. Hayward, 83 Mo.…
1Opinion of the CourtBurgess, J.
Defendant was convicted at the September term, 1891, of the criminal court of Jackson county |of forgery in the first degree, and his punishment fixed at ten years imprisonment in the penitentiary.
The indictment is as follows:
In the Criminal Court of' Jackson County, Missouri, at Kansas City, Missouri,. January Term, A. D. 1891.
' “The grand jurors for the state of Missouri, in and for the body of the county of Jackson, upon their oaths, present that Frank S. Rowlen, late of the county aforesaid, on the twenty-second day of April, 1889, at. *629the county of Jackson, state aforesaid, unlawfully…
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