State v. Smith
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Charles Circuit Court. — Hon. E. M. Hughes, Judge. (1) In indictments, words and phrases shall be construed according to the common and approved usage of the language. Heard’s Criminal Pleading, p. 39; also pp. 165, and following; 10 Am. and Eng. Encyclopedia of Law, p. 461. (2) Each count in an indictment ought to charge one single crime.
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Appeal from St. Charles Circuit Court. — Hon. E. M. Hughes, Judge. (1) In indictments, words and phrases shall be construed according to the common and approved usage of the language. Heard’s Criminal Pleading, p. 39; also pp. 165, and following; 10 Am. and Eng. Encyclopedia of Law, p. 461. (2) Each count in an indictment ought to charge one single crime. Heard’s Criminal Pleading, p. 103. (3) The indictment must charge the offense in the particular words of the statute creating such offense,, and general terms, unaccompanied by the particular terms and words of the statute, are insufficient…
1Opinion of the CourtGrANTT, P. J.
The indictment preferred by the grand jury against the appellant is as follows, to-wit:
“ State op Missouei, V ‘‘County of St. Charles. / ss'
“In the Circuit Court of St. Charles County, Missouri, March Term, 1893.
“The grand jurors for the state of Missouri duly impaneled, sworn and charged to inquire into and for the body of said county of St. Charles and state of Missouri, upon their oaths present and charge one James Smith, at said county of St. Charles, on the seventeenth day of February, 1893, unlawfully, willfully and feloniously, did attempt to feloniously rob certain money, property and…
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