State v. Osborne
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Glair Circuit Court. — Hon. J. D. Parkinson, Judge. The defendants filed a motion to quash the indictment for the reason that it failed to aver the act in which the lewdness and lascivious behavior consisted, or the nature or character of the same, or the time, manner or place of commission of the open and notorious acts of-indecency, and because there were two separate and distinct offenses charged in the same count in the indictment.
1Opinion of the CourtHenry, J.
At the September term, 1875, of the St. Glair circuit court, the grand jury found the following indictment against the defendants: The grand jurors for *144the State of Missouri, summoned from the body of St. Clair county, empaneled, charged and sworn, upon their oaths, present that John L. Osborne and Ellen Redfield, late of the county aforesaid, on or about the 15th day of August, 1875, at the town of Osceola, in the county of St. Clair, State aforesaid, did, and on divers other days between that day and the time of the finding of this bill of indictment, with force and arms at the town of…
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