State v. Morney
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Cooper Circuit Court.—How. Wm. H. Martin, Judge. The evidence is wholly insufficient to sustain the verdict and the instruction in the nature of a demurrer to the evidence, asked by the defendant at the close of the State’s case in chief, and again at the close of the whole case, should have been given.
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Appeal from Cooper Circuit Court.—How. Wm. H. Martin, Judge. The evidence is wholly insufficient to sustain the verdict and the instruction in the nature of a demurrer to the evidence, asked by the defendant at the close of the State’s case in chief, and again at the close of the whole case, should have been given. State v. Jones, 106 Mo. 312; State v. Scott, 177 Mo. 672; State v. Mahan, 138 Mo. 112; State v. Marshall, 47 Mo. 378. Under the decisions of this, and other courts, the evidence was sufficient; and, the verdict of the jury having met with the approval of the trial court, the…
1Opinion of the CourtBurgess, P. J.
On the 27th day of October, 1905, the grand jury of Cooper county preferred an indictment. against the defendant, Morney, charging him in the first count thereof with arson in the third degree, in having, at said county, on the second day of September, 1905, set fire to and burned a store building situated in said county and belonging to one George Vaughn; the second count of the indictment being the same as the first, save that it avers the ownership of said building to be in one Henry A. Cox.
Thereafter, during the October term, 1905, of said *45Cooper County Circuit Court, the defendant was…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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