Straub v. State of Oregon

The plaintiff challenged the complaint in the Justice’s Court by a motion upon the grounds that the complaint does not state facts sufficient to constitute a crime. Second, that the court had no jurisdiction to try the cause.

The complaint is in the form of an information of felony. The charging part is as follows:

“The said John Doe Straub on the 14th day of May, A. D. 1926, in the county of Benton and state of Oregon, then and there being did then and there unlawfully and ‘feloniously’ assault and beat one Anna B. Frantz, against the peace and dignity of the state of Oregon, and contrary to…