State v. Pearson
Supreme Court of Missouri
Writ of Error to Pemiscot Circuit Court. — lion. Sterling H. McCarty, Judge. (.1) It was not necessary for defendant to reside in precinct No. 1 of Virginia Township, Pemiscot County, Missouri, ip order to be a legal voter in said precinct, but it was sufficient if he resided within Virginia Township and said information failing to state that he did not reside within Virginia Township, fails to state an offense against the laws of the State of Missouri, and the plea of…
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Writ of Error to Pemiscot Circuit Court. — lion. Sterling H. McCarty, Judge. (.1) It was not necessary for defendant to reside in precinct No. 1 of Virginia Township, Pemiscot County, Missouri, ip order to be a legal voter in said precinct, but it was sufficient if he resided within Virginia Township and said information failing to state that he did not reside within Virginia Township, fails to state an offense against the laws of the State of Missouri, and the plea of guilty entered to said charge is a nullity and the defendant should be discharged. Sec. 2, Art. 8, Mo. Const.; Sec. 4748, R.…
1Opinion of the Court
On information filed November 14, 1920, in the Circuit Court of Pemiscot County, defendant was charged with illegal voting on the second day of November, 1920. On the seventeenth ofStatement. November, at the same term of court, the defendant appeared in person in court, waived arraignment, plead guilty to the information as charged, and his punishment was fixed at two years imprisonment in the penitentiary. Afterwards a writ of error was sued out in this court by the defendant.
I. By his plea of guilty the defendant confessed only the truth of the facts stated in the information. It did not…
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