City of St. Louis v. Weitzel
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis Court of Criminal Correction.— Hon. J. R. Claiborne, Judge. The defendant was prosecuted under the provisions of a certain ordinance; the complaint, the following: “City of St. Louis, November 15, A. D. .1892. “ John Weitzel, to the City of St. Louis, Dr. “To $200 for the violation of an ordinance of said city, entitled: ‘An ordinance regulating the keeping, storing and handling and licensing the removal of garbage, grease, offal and other refuse matter…
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Appeal from St. Louis Court of Criminal Correction.— Hon. J. R. Claiborne, Judge. The defendant was prosecuted under the provisions of a certain ordinance; the complaint, the following: “City of St. Louis, November 15, A. D. .1892. “ John Weitzel, to the City of St. Louis, Dr. “To $200 for the violation of an ordinance of said city, entitled: ‘An ordinance regulating the keeping, storing and handling and licensing the removal of garbage, grease, offal and other refuse matter composed of either animal or vegetable matter, and to repeal section 394, article 10, chapter 14, and sections 507 and…
1Opinion of the CourtShebwood, J.
At the outset of the discussion of the subject this record presents, we make this announcement, that we do not propose to follow counsel for defendant through the thirty-eight heads of his brief. We shall only notice such points as we deem pertinent to, and decisive of, this case.
I. a. And first as to the sufficiency of the complaint ; in regard to which it may be observed that we have always held that a prosecution under a city ordinance is but a civil action, and hence the sufficiency of the complaint therein is to be determined by the same rules as are dominant in other civil cases. Kansas…
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