Bower v. State
Supreme Court of Missouri
The indictment in this case contains two counts for the murder of Thompson, alias George Thompson, and the offence is charged in the language of the statute. Oa the trial of this cause, there were eleven witnesses examined on the part of the State with regard to the facts connected with the offence, and two other persons were examined as to the confession of Bower.
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The indictment in this case contains two counts for the murder of Thompson, alias George Thompson, and the offence is charged in the language of the statute. Oa the trial of this cause, there were eleven witnesses examined on the part of the State with regard to the facts connected with the offence, and two other persons were examined as to the confession of Bower. Independen!, of Bower’s confession, there was no proof that the dead body found was that of George Thompson, or the person seen with Bower at Madame RouSseris. The prose-tor must have failed, therefore, in the absence of this proof…
1Opinion of the Court
McGirk,
Judge, delivered the opinion of the court.
At the April term of the circuit court for the'county of Ste. Genevieve, Bower was indicted by the grarid’jury of that county for the murder of "one George-Thompson. The trial was had at the said -tei-nr; the defendant pleaded not guilty, and a jury found him guilty'bii'both counts •in the indictment; both are alike, except one is in the common law form; the other is in the'common law form, but contains, also, certain words in a late statute regarding the crime of murder. The prisoner, by Messrs. Cole, Zeigler and Rezier, of'counsel, moved in…
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