State v. McKinley

The appellant was convicted in the Circuit Court of Camden County of attempted robbery in violation of Section 4015, Revised Statutes 1929 (Mo. Stat. Ann., p. 2821), and his punishment assessed by a - jury at imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of seven years. On this appeal his sole assignment of error is that the circuit court had no jurisdiction because no information charging him with the crime was filed after his preliminary examination before a justice of the peace.

An information was filed in the circuit court on March 1, 1935, before any preliminary hearing had been held. Later…