State v. McClendon

This is an appeal by the State of Mississippi from an order of the circuit court of Choctaw County dismissing a criminal cause of action.

The defendant was indicted under Mississippi Code Annotated section 2052 (1956) “Children, Female — Violation of Persons of — Penalty” on the 17th day of February, 1964, in Choctaw County. The defendant moved the court to require the State to inform the defendant as to the date and place of the alleged crime as charged in the indictment and such motion was sustained by the court. Whereupon the district attorney, on behalf of the State, declined to plead…