State v. Schuchmann
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Franklin Circuit Gowrt. — Hon. Rudolph Hirzel, Judge. (1) All distinction between principál and accessory before the fact, has been abolished by section 3944, Revised Statutes, 1889, and said section provides that, such accessory “maybe charged, tried, and punished in the same manner as a principal in the first degree. ” State v. Fredericks, 85 Mo. 145; State v. Anderson, 89-Mo. 312; State v. Buckner, 93 Mo. 88; State v. Payton, 90 Mo; 220. The term “may” should…
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Appeal from Franklin Circuit Gowrt. — Hon. Rudolph Hirzel, Judge. (1) All distinction between principál and accessory before the fact, has been abolished by section 3944, Revised Statutes, 1889, and said section provides that, such accessory “maybe charged, tried, and punished in the same manner as a principal in the first degree. ” State v. Fredericks, 85 Mo. 145; State v. Anderson, 89-Mo. 312; State v. Buckner, 93 Mo. 88; State v. Payton, 90 Mo; 220. The term “may” should be construed as “shall,” and the indictment as against appellant should have been as full and explicit in its essential…
1Opinion of the Court
DIVISION TWO.
Sherwood, J.
On change of venue from St. Louis county circuit court, the defendant was tried in the Franklin circuit court upon an indictment, the material portions of which are as follows:
*115• “That Joseph Turner and Ruben Troller on the .second day of July, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, at the county of St. Louis, in the state of Missouri, did then and there feloniously and burglariously break into and enter a certain chicken house building, the property then of William C. Price, by forcibly pushing and bursting open an outer window of the same, and with the…
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