State v. Freeze
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from the Cape Girardeau Circuit Court, Hon. H. C. O’Bryan, Judge. Tbe county of Cape Girardeau is entitled to but two grand juries in eacb year, and it appearing from tbe record that there bad been a grand jury qualified and empaneled at tbe January and May terms of the circuit court of said county, tbe grand jury summoned and returned to tbe August term of said court bad no legal existence and their acts were absolutely void and of no effect.
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Appeal from the Cape Girardeau Circuit Court, Hon. H. C. O’Bryan, Judge. Tbe county of Cape Girardeau is entitled to but two grand juries in eacb year, and it appearing from tbe record that there bad been a grand jury qualified and empaneled at tbe January and May terms of the circuit court of said county, tbe grand jury summoned and returned to tbe August term of said court bad no legal existence and their acts were absolutely void and of no effect. Rev. Stat. 1879, secs. 1154, 1174 • State v. Oreen, 87 Mo. 583 ; State v. JDeBar, 58 Mo. 395. Tbe word year will always be intended to mean a…
1Opinion of the CourtPeers, J.
The defendant was tried and convicted in the circuit court of Cape Girardeau county on the following indictment :
“The grand jurors of the state of Missouri, duly empaneled, sworn, and charged, to inquire within and for the county of Cape Girardeau, and state aforesaid, upon their oaths aforesaid, present and charge, that Herman Freeze, at said county and state, on or about the seventh? day of August, 1887, then and there a dram-shop keeper, and having a license to keep a dramshop, did keep open such dramshop, and sell and give away, and suffer to be sold and given away, upon and about his…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- State v. FancherSupreme Court of Missouri · 1880
- State v. ConnellSupreme Court of Missouri · 1872
- State v. BleekleySupreme Court of Missouri · 1853
- State v. WelchSupreme Court of Missouri · 1862
- State v. NationsSupreme Court of Missouri · 1881
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