State v. Plant
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Eon. Hugo Muench, Judge. (1) There was a total failure of proof in this case. Defendant is charged in the information with stealing a diamond ring; he was convicted of the offense charged in the information; there is not one line of testimony that a ring’ was ever lost by the prosecuting witness. This is a total failure of proof.
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Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Eon. Hugo Muench, Judge. (1) There was a total failure of proof in this case. Defendant is charged in the information with stealing a diamond ring; he was convicted of the offense charged in the information; there is not one line of testimony that a ring’ was ever lost by the prosecuting witness. This is a total failure of proof. State v. Ballard, 104 Mo. 634; State v. Smith, 31 Mo. 120’; Berrien v. State, 83 Ga. 381; Gray v. State, 11 Tex. App. 411; State v. McDonald, 10‘ Mont. 21; Barclay v. State, 55 Ga. 179; Rangel v. State, 1 Tex. App. 461;…
1Opinion of the CourtFox, P. J.
This cause is brought to this court by appeal on the part of the defendant from a judgment of conviction of grand larceny in the circuit court of the city of St. Louis. The information upon which the judgment in this cause rests, omitting formal parts, is as follows:
“Richard M. Johnson, assistant circuit attorney, in and for the city of St. Louis, aforesaid, within and for the body of the city of St. Louis, on behalf of the State of Missouri, upon his official oath, information makes as follows:
“That Abraham Plant, on the 18th day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred…
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