State v. Goddard

On November 2, 1925, the Prosecuting Attorney of Scott County, filed in the circuit court of said county a verified information which, omitting formal parts, reads as follows:

"Now comes Stephen Barton, Prosecuting Attorney within and for the County of Scott, who in this behalf prosecutes for and in the name of the State of Missouri, and upon his official oath and upon his hereunto appended oath, informs the court, and does present, aver and charge that the said defendant, William Goddard, on or about the 30th day of August, A.D. 1925, at the said County of Scott, in the State of Missouri, did…