Ex parte Snyder
Missouri Court of Appeals
Petition for writ of habeas corpus. The case is stated in the opinion. I. Habeas corpus is the proper remedy where the error is patent on the face of the record.
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Petition for writ of habeas corpus. The case is stated in the opinion. I. Habeas corpus is the proper remedy where the error is patent on the face of the record. Ex parte Page, 49 Mo. 291; Ex parte Toney, 11 Mo. 662. It is the proper remedy where, though the original imprisonment was lawful, yet, by some act, omission, or event, which has taken place afterwards, the party has become entitled to his discharge; or where the jurisdiction of the trial court has been exceeded, either as to matter, place, sum, or person. Bev. Stat., sec. 2650; Ex parte Snyder, 65 Mo. 58. II. It is the imperative…
1Opinion of the CourtPhilips, P. J.
The petition, and accompanying papers, and the return of the marshal of Jackson county, disclose the following state of facts: At the May term, 1887, of the Jackson county criminal court the petitioner was indicted by the grand jury in and for said county for the offence of an assault with intent to *259commit a rape. On a trial had thereon, at said term, the jury failed to agree and were discharged. At the succeeding term of said court, to-wit, on the fifteenth day of September, 1887, petitioner was again put upon his trial, and the jury returned into court the following-verdict: “We the jury…
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