State v. Grisham
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Scott Circuit Court. — Hon. J. D. Foster, Judge. Error was committed in quashing the indictment. It complies with the substantial requirements of the statute on which it is based, and states all the essential elements of the offence charge 1. This is all that is required. R. S., sec. 1312; State v. Hall, 85 Mo. 669.
1Opinion of the Court
Sherwood, J. —
The charging portion of the indictment is as follows: ‘ ‘ That M. Thomas Grisham on the fifteenth day of August, A. D., 1883, at the county of Scott aforesaid, then and there executed, acknowledged and delivéred a certain chattel mortgage to Andrew -J. Pigg and John Q. Lemms, by which he conveyed to them five cows, two two-year-old steers and one heifer*, and thirty-five acres of growing corn situate upon the ‘ Huey farm’ in said county and all of said property of the value of two hundred dollars. That the said chattel mortgage, so as aforesaid executed and delivered by the said…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- City of St. Louis v. LaughlinSupreme Court of Missouri · 1872
- State v. HallSupreme Court of Missouri · 1885
3Cited by8 opinions
- Wallis v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1891
- State v. AndersonSupreme Court of Missouri · 1950
- State v. CrosswhiteSupreme Court of Missouri · 1895
- State v. ParkerUtah Supreme Court · 1943
- Faggard v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1909
3 more not listed; retrieve them via the Exa API.