State v. Koerner

This was an indictment for selling liquor as a dramshop keeper without license. The defendant was tried before a jury and a verdict of guilty found.

He put in no plea and none was entered for him.

A motion in arrest of judgment was filed and entertained and an order discharging the prisoner entered.

The motion in arrest was properly sustained. The statute re quires the Court to enter a plea of not guilty when the defendant fails to do so. The trial without entering the plea, was error for which the verdict might to have been set aside, and a new trial granted. (Maeder vs. The State, 11 Mo., 363;…