State v. Goddard
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Cole Circuit Court. — Hon. D. W. Shacldeford, Judge. (1) On January 30, 1899, the State, over the objection and exception of defendant, dismissed said cause pending in Cass county, Missouri, and the judgment recited that he be discharged and that he go hence without day. This was a judgment discharging defendant from said cause, and he could plead same in bar of any other proceedings by the State. 1 Chitty’s Grim.
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Appeal from Cole Circuit Court. — Hon. D. W. Shacldeford, Judge. (1) On January 30, 1899, the State, over the objection and exception of defendant, dismissed said cause pending in Cass county, Missouri, and the judgment recited that he be discharged and that he go hence without day. This was a judgment discharging defendant from said cause, and he could plead same in bar of any other proceedings by the State. 1 Chitty’s Grim. Law, 461; Eogers v. Gosnell, 51 Mo. 468. (2) It was the rule of law in this State, until the adoption of the. present Constitution of the State of Missouri in 1875, that…
1Opinion of the CourtGantt, J.
On the second day of April, 1897, at the Woodland Hotel in Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri, Jefferson D. Goddard shot and killed Erederick J. J ackson. On the twentieth day of April, 1897, the grand jury of Jackson county returned an indictment charging Jefferson D. Goddard with murder in the first degree. After a mistrial defendant was, on a second trial in the J ackson County Criminal Court, before Honorable George E. Longan, special judge, convicted *205of murder in the second degree, and his punishment fixed at imprisonment in the penitentiary for the term of sixteen years. On appeal to…
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