State v. Baird
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Pemiscot Circuit Court. — Ron. Sterling R. McCarty, Judge. The information is fatally defective, in that it fails to inform the defendant of the charge against him.
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Appeal from Pemiscot Circuit Court. — Ron. Sterling R. McCarty, Judge. The information is fatally defective, in that it fails to inform the defendant of the charge against him. It is in the exact language of the information in State v. Clayton, 100 Mo. 516. See also State v. Davis, 121 Mo. 404; State v. Norman, 136 Mo. 1, and State v. Bond, 191 Mo. 555. (2) The court erred in permitting the State to prove that Kit Brandon had a bad reputation for being a la'wabiding citizen, the only proper inquiry being his reputation for truth and veracity for the object of impeachment. (3) A defendant…
1Opinion of the CourtFaris, J.
Defendant, charged by an information filed in the Pemiscot Circuit Court, under Section 4482, Revised Statutes 1909, with an assault with intent to kill one Mitt Pruitt, was found guilty by the trial jury and his punishment assessed at imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of three years. Prom the resulting sentence following this verdict he has, in.the conventional way, appealed.
The facts of the case run briefly thus: On the 23rd of August, 1915, a number of persons, including Mitt Pruitt, the man who is said to have been assaulted, were driving in farm wagons across the corn field of…
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