State v. Riddle
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Stoddard Circuit Court. — Hon. J. L. Fort, Judge. (1) The record shows that this case was continued at the March term, 1902, at the September term, 1902, and at the March term, 1903. The March term, 1903, came to an end on June 13th, when it was adjourned to court in course; hence, defendant was entitled to be discharged under the statute.
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Appeal from Stoddard Circuit Court. — Hon. J. L. Fort, Judge. (1) The record shows that this case was continued at the March term, 1902, at the September term, 1902, and at the March term, 1903. The March term, 1903, came to an end on June 13th, when it was adjourned to court in course; hence, defendant was entitled to be discharged under the statute. Sec. 2642, R. S. 1899. (2) Miles Morgan, one of the jurors accepted by the court on the panel of forty, over the objection of defendant,stated that he heard a. part of the evidence given in the case on the hearing for bail, but that he didn’t…
1Opinion of the CourtBurgess, J.
— Defendant was convicted of murder in the second degree and his punishment fixed at ten years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary, under an information filed by the prosecuting attorney of Stoddard county in the circuit court of said county, charging him with having at said county, on March 6, 1902, feloniously, willfully, deliberately, premeditatedly and of his malice aforethought shot and killed with a pistol one Gus Laws. ;
The ease is before us upon defendant’s appeal.
The facts connected with the homicide are but few, and, briefly stated, are substantially as follows:
The defendant, a young…
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