Legal Opinion

State v. Murphy

Supreme Court of Missouri

Decided January 15, 1871PublishedCited by 21 opinions

Error to First District Court. cited 1 Bisk. Crim. Pr. 191, 195; 1 Bisk. Crim. Law, 274, 803, 810; LeBeau v. The People, 6 Pars. Crim. Law, 387; State v. Francisco, 3 Zabr. 32; Barnes v. State, 20 Conn. 236; 1 Arch. Crim. Pr. & P. C. 315; State v. Gray, 10 Mo. 440.

1Opinion of the CourtBliss, Judge

Defendants were indicted and found guilty of a misdemeanor, before tke passage of tke act of 1868 for trying suck offenses upon information. Tke ckarge was tkat, on tke first day of tke week, tke accused unlawfully kept open a certain tippling skop and grocery, and sold to divers persons, unknown to tke grand jury, intoxicating and fermented liquors, to-wit: one glass and gill of beer, one glass and gill of wkisky, and one glass and gill of brandy, eack for tke sum of ten cents, contrary, etc.

Tke objections to tke indictment are: 1st, it is against two persons; 2d,, it combines more tkan one…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. State v. BurgessSupreme Court of Missouri · 1857
  2. State v. GaySupreme Court of Missouri · 1847
  3. State v. WoodwardSupreme Court of Vermont · 1853
  4. Thomas v. StateSupreme Court of Missouri · 1840

3Cited by21 opinions

  1. State v. HartmanSupreme Court of Missouri · 1954
  2. City of St. Louis v. St. Louis Theatre Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1907
  3. Griffin v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 1902
  4. People v. ThompsonCalifornia Supreme Court · 1896
  5. State v. AgnewSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1889

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