State v. Smith

On February 26, 1923, the Prosecuting Attorney of Iron County, Missouri, filed in the justice's court of said county, an information charging defendant with malicious trespass in pulling down and carrying away thirty-five fence posts, set in the ground, the property of one Samuel M. Brewster, etc. The defendant was found guilty of a misdemeanor in the justice's court, under said information, and appealed to the circuit court of said county, where he filed a motion to quash the information, on the ground that it and the affidavit on which it was based failed to charge that the defendant had no…