State v. Barr
Missouri Court of Appeals
Error to Platte Circuit Court, Hon. James M. Sandusky, Judge. Statement of case by the court. The defendant was indicted for selling intoxicating liquors as a druggist.
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Error to Platte Circuit Court, Hon. James M. Sandusky, Judge. Statement of case by the court. The defendant was indicted for selling intoxicating liquors as a druggist. The indictment was as follows: “In the circuit court of Platte county, August term, A.D., 1887. “The grand jury for the state of Missouri, summoned from the body of Platte county, empaneled, ■charged and sworn, upon their oaths, present that A. C. Barr, late of the county aforesaid, on the fifteenth day of June, 1887, at the said county of Platte, state aforesaid, being then and there a druggist and. dealer in drugs and…
1Opinion of the CourtHall, J.
No objection to the indictment has suggested itself to us in addition to the special objections made in the defendant’s demurrer. The validity of those objections is, therefore, the question for our determination.
The objection that the indictment does not follow the words of the statute is bad. An indictment is good *502which uses words of equivalent meaning and import; it need not use the exact words of the statute. State v. Dougolensky, 82 Mo. 44.
The objection that there is no time alleged in the indictment as to when the defendant was a dealer in drugs, or when he committed the offence, is not…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- State v. ElamMissouri Court of Appeals · 1886
- State v. FindleySupreme Court of Missouri · 1883
- State v. DengolenskySupreme Court of Missouri · 1884
3Cited by1 opinion
- Claussen v. City of LuverneSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1908