State v. Hall
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Cass Circuit Court. — Hon. W. L. Jarrott, Judge, (1) Where the statute creates an offense, an indictment which follows the words of the statute is sufficient.
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Appeal from Cass Circuit Court. — Hon. W. L. Jarrott, Judge, (1) Where the statute creates an offense, an indictment which follows the words of the statute is sufficient. State v. West, 158 Mo. 317; State v. Van Wye, 136 Mo. 241; State v. Addock, 65 Mo. 592; State v. Batson, 31 Mo. 344; State v. Presbury, 13 Mo. 34; State v. Eulton, 19 Mo. 680; State v. Johnson, 93 Mo. 317; State v. Mohr, 68 Mo. 303; State v. Schieneman, 64 Mo. 386; State v. Davis, 106 Mo. 230; State v. McDaniel, 40 Mo. App. 356; State v. Buck,'43 Mo. App. 443. An indictment is good which states every fact and circumstance…
1Opinion of the CourtGantt, J.
— At the January term, 1900, of the circuit court of Cass county, the grand jury returned the following indictment:
“The grand jurors for the State of Missouri, summoned from the body of Cass county, impaneled, charged and sworn, upon their oath present that W. R. Hall, late of the county aforesaid, on the twenty-fifth day of September, 1899, at the county of Cass, State aforesaid, did unlawfully and feloniously make an assault upon one Barbara Mast, he, the said W. R. Hall being then and there a person, over the age of sixteen years and she, the said Barbara Mast', being then and there an…
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