State v. Cox
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from, Barry Circuit Court.—W. F. Geiger, Judge. cited McKay*p>. The State, 12 Mo. 492; Wheeler v. The State, 14 Kelly’s Crim. Brae. § 49; 1 Greenl. JSo. §2Í8, note. Where a witness to a murder acts in such a manner as to unmistakably evince a design to encourage, incite, approve of, or in some-manner afford aid or comfort or consent to the act, he is-, as guilty as the principal.
1Opinion of the CourtNapton, J.
1. practice, criminal-: want of prosecution: chicle’of venueSoner:
At the October term, 1875, of the circuit'-, court of Christian county, the appellant Cox, with others,, wag indicted for the murder of one Davis,, ” 011 °f- December, 1873. The record shows that Cox applied for a change of venue at this term, and upon this application the case was sent to *30Barry county, where the papers were filed on the 20th of May, 1876. The Bany circuit court is held, as the statute shows, on the second. Mondays in April and October. At the October term of the circuit court in Barry county, the case was…
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