State v. Sloss
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal 'rom St. Clair Circuit Cou/rt. The facts are su libiently set forth in the opinion of the court. The act of December 13,1855, under which the indictment was found, took effect 1st May, 1856. The act of 1857 does not repeal or modify the law of 1855, but releases defendant from a pending prosecution for an offence against that law, upon the performance of certain conditions. It is an act of legislative pardon.
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Appeal 'rom St. Clair Circuit Cou/rt. The facts are su libiently set forth in the opinion of the court. The act of December 13,1855, under which the indictment was found, took effect 1st May, 1856. The act of 1857 does not repeal or modify the law of 1855, but releases defendant from a pending prosecution for an offence against that law, upon the performance of certain conditions. It is an act of legislative pardon. The conditions annexed do not make it less an act of pardon, and the performance of such conditions by defendant can not give validity to the act. The pardoning power is vested in…
1Opinion of the CourtScott, Judge
In 1857 the general assembly passed an act to the purport that all persons in the state of Missouri, who are now indicted for the violation of the act to regulate dram-shops committed before the 15th December, 1856, be and they are hereby released from said prosecution ; provided each individual shall pay all the costs in said case, and a fee of two dollars to the circuit attorney.
The defendant was one of the individuals embraced within the purview of this act, and produced to the court satisfactory evidence that he had complied with the conditions of its proviso, and thereupon, upon his…
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