State v. Karnes

The information charges that the defendant “did unlawfully and wilfully disquiet and disturb a congregation of persons met for religious worship within the place of meeting, to-wit, at the Methodist Episcopal church, in the town of Oentralia, in Boone county, Missouri, by then and there wilfully menacing, threatening, assaulting one Henry W. Sageser, a person then and there being,” etc. The circuit court sustained a motion to quash the information upon these grounds: First, that the information did not charge the offense to have been done maliciously or contemptuously; second, that it did not…