State v. Phelan

GANTT, P. J.-

The defendant was indicted, tried and convicted in the circuit court of Vernon county at the October term, 1899, and from that conviction appeals to this court. The indictment, omitting the formal parts, is as follows:

“The grand jurors for the State of Missouri, summoned from the body of the county of Vernon, now here in court *123duly empaneled, sworn and charged to inquire within and for the body of the county of Vernon and State of Missouri, upon their oath do present and charge that one Walter Phelan, late of the county and State aforesaid, on or about the twenty-second day of…