State v. Young
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Dent Circuit Court. — Hon. C. 0. Bland, Judge. (1) The instructions given for the state were erroneous, (a) There is no venue laid in them. It was error to convict the defendant, unless the offense was committed in Dent county, which fact was disregarded in all of the state’s instructions, and the record is silent as to where offense was committed.
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Appeal from Dent Circuit Court. — Hon. C. 0. Bland, Judge. (1) The instructions given for the state were erroneous, (a) There is no venue laid in them. It was error to convict the defendant, unless the offense was committed in Dent county, which fact was disregarded in all of the state’s instructions, and the record is silent as to where offense was committed. State v. Inman, 76 Mo. 548; State v. McGrath, 73 Mo. 181; State v. Hughes, 71 Mo. 633; State v. Wheeler, 79 Mo. 366; State v. Hughes, 82 Mo. 86. (5) The instructions given for the state fix upon the defendant the relation of…
1Opinion of the CourtBlack, J.
Defendant was indicted under section 1260, Revised Statutes, 1879, for defiling Eliza A. Smith. He was convicted and his punishment assessed at a fine of one hundred dollars and imprisonment in the county jail for twenty-four hours.
The evidence shows that a sister of the defendant’s wife engaged Eliza A. Smith in December, 1883, to go to defendant’s house to do kitchen work. The defendant’s wife was then sick, and Eliza remained in the employ of the defendant in the capacity of a kitchen girl from that date until January, or February, 1885. She was sixteen years old when she went to live at…
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