State v. Payne
Supreme Court of Missouri
G. A. Bird, Circuit Attorney. The error assigned heie, is, that judgment was rendered for the defendant, when by the law of the land, it should have been for the State — the defendant denies the error, 1. The plaintiff" insists that said Wilson Primm J. P. &c. had no jurisdiction over the offence for which said, and others were indicted. 2. That the Mayor, Aldermen and citizens of the city of St. Louis, had no jurisdiction over the offence for which said Payne and others…
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G. A. Bird, Circuit Attorney. The error assigned heie, is, that judgment was rendered for the defendant, when by the law of the land, it should have been for the State — the defendant denies the error, 1. The plaintiff" insists that said Wilson Primm J. P. &c. had no jurisdiction over the offence for which said, and others were indicted. 2. That the Mayor, Aldermen and citizens of the city of St. Louis, had no jurisdiction over the offence for which said Payne and others were indicted. 3. That even if said justice of the peace, or said Mayor &c. had jurisdiction, the defendant’s plea is bad,…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the court delivered by
McGirk Judge.
The defendant Payne, was indicted for agreeing with two others, to unlawfully beat and assault ope Henry Francis, and also for actually proceeding to put said agreement in execution. The defendant Payne, pleaded, that on a certain day before the filing said plea, he had been sued before one Wilson Primm, a justice of the peace for the county and township of St. Louis; and was before said justice convicted of the same offence in an action of debt, under the laws of the corporation of the said city of St. Louis, and under the said conviction, he was…
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