State v. Henderson
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Jasper Circuit Court. — Hon. D. E. Blair, Judge. (1) The motion to quash the information is not preserved in this bill of exceptions, but is incorporated in the record.
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Appeal from Jasper Circuit Court. — Hon. D. E. Blair, Judge. (1) The motion to quash the information is not preserved in this bill of exceptions, but is incorporated in the record. This information is so drafted that- it charges the defendant with an assault upon Doreene Decatur, and also charges him with the crime of carnal knowledge of Doreene Decatur, an unmarried female of previous chaste character between the ages of fourteen and eighteen years; all in one count and is multifarious for that reason. State v. Nichols, 124 Mo. App. 330; State v. Hedrick, 179 Mo. 300; State v. Boyd, 10-8 Mo.…
1Opinion of the CourtFerriss, P. J.
The defendant was convicted in the circuit court of Jasper county, April term, 1911, of having carnal knowledge of Loreene Decatur, an unmarried female of previously chaste character between the ages of fourteen and eighteen years, and sentenced by the court to two years in the penitentiary.
The evidence on the part of the State tended to prove that the prosecutrix, who resided with her parents at Webb City, was between fourteen and eighteen years of age at the time of the commission of the alleged offense, and that defendant was a mute, married, about fifty-two years of age, and carried on a…
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