State v. Long
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Boone Circuit Court. — Hon. David H. Harris, Judge. (1) The information follows the approved forms and, in its description of the hogs alleged to Have been -stolen, was more specific than was necessary. State v. Swearengin, 234 Mo. 549; State v. Dewitt, 152 Mo. 84; Kelley’s Crim. Law, sec. 642. (2) But the information alleges, and the proof was, that the alleged stolen hogs were the property of the “University of Missouri.”
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Appeal from Boone Circuit Court. — Hon. David H. Harris, Judge. (1) The information follows the approved forms and, in its description of the hogs alleged to Have been -stolen, was more specific than was necessary. State v. Swearengin, 234 Mo. 549; State v. Dewitt, 152 Mo. 84; Kelley’s Crim. Law, sec. 642. (2) But the information alleges, and the proof was, that the alleged stolen hogs were the property of the “University of Missouri.” There was no proof that the University of Missouri is a cOTporation. The University, however, was incorporated by statute and the corporate name of the…
1Opinion of the CourtFaris, J.
Defendant was convicted in the Circuit Court of Boone County for the larceny of certain hogs, the property, as the information charged, of ‘ ‘ The University of Missouri, a corporation.” Pursuant to verdict, he was sentenced to imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for a term of two years, and in the conventional way has appealed.
The hogs alleged to have been stolen were eight in number, were of the value of about $170, and were a part' of a number of hogs kept by The University of Missouri at what is called in the record' the “serum plant” for use in the process of producing hog cholera'…
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