State v. Johnson
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Warren Circuit Court. — Hon. W. W. Edwards, Judge. (1) The indictment is unintelligible, it does not inform the defendant of the offense with which he is charged. State v. Daugherty, 30 Tex. 360; Jones v. State, 21 Tex. App. 349; Edmonson v. State, 41 Tex. 496; State v. Edwards, 70 Mo. 480; State v. Reahey, 62 Mo. 40. (2) The intrusion of the prosecuting attorney upon the grand jury was in violation of the statute.
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Appeal from Warren Circuit Court. — Hon. W. W. Edwards, Judge. (1) The indictment is unintelligible, it does not inform the defendant of the offense with which he is charged. State v. Daugherty, 30 Tex. 360; Jones v. State, 21 Tex. App. 349; Edmonson v. State, 41 Tex. 496; State v. Edwards, 70 Mo. 480; State v. Reahey, 62 Mo. 40. (2) The intrusion of the prosecuting attorney upon the grand jury was in violation of the statute. (Revised Statutes, sec. 4077.) Rothschild v. State, 7 Tex. App. 519; People v. Driggs, 60 How. Pr. Rep. 17. (3) The court erred in instructing that the fact of the…
1Opinion of the CourtBurgess, J.
At the March term, 1888, of the-circuit court of Ralls county, the defendant was indicted for taking away from her father in said county one Rosa Price, a female under the age of eighteen years, for the purpose of concubinage. .
A motion to quash the indictment was filed and’ also a plea in abatement, both of which were overruled. The venue was changed on the application of defendant to the circuit court of Warren county, where a trial was had at an adjourned term of said court on the-fourteenth day of December, 1891, and the defendant was found guilty and his punishment assessed at two-years’…
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