State v. Baker
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis Circuit Court. A review of the decision made by this court in the case of O’Blenis is respectfully and earnestly urged, 1st, because that decision was made by a divided bench on a constitutional question ; 2d, because of the importance of the question involved, regarded either as a limitation on the judiciary department of the government, or as a personal security of the citizen against the oppressive action of the government; and, 3d, because of the…
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Appeal from St. Louis Circuit Court. A review of the decision made by this court in the case of O’Blenis is respectfully and earnestly urged, 1st, because that decision was made by a divided bench on a constitutional question ; 2d, because of the importance of the question involved, regarded either as a limitation on the judiciary department of the government, or as a personal security of the citizen against the oppressive action of the government; and, 3d, because of the grounds on which the decision is put by the majority of the court. If the reasoning of this decision be properly…
1Opinion of the CourtRyuaNd, Judge
The defendant was indicted at the September term, 1854, of the Criminal Court of St. Louis county, for wilfully, felonious" ly, on purpose, and of malice aforethought, assaulting, cutting, wounding and mutilating William 0. Hoffman, with a knife, then and tüere being a deadly weapon. The act was charged to have been committed on the 14th day of March, 1854, at St. Louis, in St. Louis county.
The second count charges the act to have been done felo-niously, on purpose, and of malice aforethought; and to have been done violently, cruelly, immoderately, and by means likely to produce death and…
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