State v. Kessel

This is an appeal from a judgment convicting the defendant of the crime of unlawfully failing to send children of school age to school. The prosecution was instituted before a justice of the peace by the filing of a complaint. In drafting the complaint a blank printed form was used, in which is incorporated in print the charge that the defendant “did commit the crime of wilfully and unlawfully failing to send children of the ages of-years over which the said defendant had control, to a public school, in compliance with the provisions of § 1342 of the Compiled Laws of North Dakota, 1913,…