Sunday v. State
Supreme Court of Missouri
APPEAL from St. Louis Criminal Court. Michael Sunday, in proper person. The appellant hails from Germany, where he came into the world, bearing the ancestral name of Sontag, which, translated from the Teutonic into Anglo-Saxon, means Sundiy. By the lat'er name he has been impleaded in the Viminal court, that tribunal claiming the right to re-baptize him in English, Of the legality of such a proceeding he is dubious.
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APPEAL from St. Louis Criminal Court. Michael Sunday, in proper person. The appellant hails from Germany, where he came into the world, bearing the ancestral name of Sontag, which, translated from the Teutonic into Anglo-Saxon, means Sundiy. By the lat'er name he has been impleaded in the Viminal court, that tribunal claiming the right to re-baptize him in English, Of the legality of such a proceeding he is dubious. A Dutch wood-chopper has a Celtic pride in his patri-onymic, and insists that the power which would seek to divest him of it is of a price with that which would despoil a…
1Opinion of the CourtRyland, J.
The defendant below, appellant here, was indicted, by the grand jury in St. Louis county, for stabbing one Henry Long, on purpose and of his malice aforethought with intent to kill. The indictment contains three counts, and is drawn under the 34,37 and 38 sections of the 2nd article of the act concerning crimes and punishments. This indictment was returned into court on the 14 January, 1850; on the 19th *419of the same month, the defendant was arraigned and plead not guilty; the case was then set for trial on the 13th of February, 1850. On which last mentioned day, the defendant, without…
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