State v. Breeden

The defendant was indicted under the provisions of "Wagn. Stat., § 9, p. 500, for defiling his ward. The indictment contained words sufficiently descriptive of the offense, and charged that the act was feloniously done,, and is therefore not open to the objections urged against it. The case of the State vs. Feaster, (25 Mo., 325) is not in point, but widely distinguishable from the present one; for there tbe act, which constituted tbe offense, was not charged to have been feloniously done, but only that tbe assault was feloniously made.

The instructions given by tbe court on its own motion…