State v. Williams
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis Criminal Court. Tlie defendants say they were two soldiers, who had been in the service; Williams had been in the service about two years and two months as a recruiting officer; was a great favorite in his company ; while recruiting he was delayed two or three days, and in consequence was ordered under arrest by his superior officer; resenting the indignity, he resigned.
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Appeal from St. Louis Criminal Court. Tlie defendants say they were two soldiers, who had been in the service; Williams had been in the service about two years and two months as a recruiting officer; was a great favorite in his company ; while recruiting he was delayed two or three days, and in consequence was ordered under arrest by his superior officer; resenting the indignity, he resigned. A breach of trust committed in Illinois and a conversion in Missouri, is not, nor can it be a felony in Missouri. The State of Missouri cannot create crimes, or laws making acts criminal, in the State of…
1Opinion of the CourtBay, Judge
At the July term, 1864, of the St. Louis Criminal Court the defendants were indicted for grand larceny, and upon conviction sentenced to the penitentiary for the term of seven *231years. Upon tbe trial it was shown that on the 9th of June, 1864, defendants put up at a hotel in Carlisle, Illinois, kept by one Truesdale; that Truesdale kept in connection with the hotel a livery stable, and defendants applied to him to hire a horse and buggy, alleging that they wanted to go to Greenville, about twenty miles north of Carlisle, and would return next day. Truesdale furnished the horse and buggy and…
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