State v. Beagles
Decision Date | 19 May 1903 |
Citation | 174 Mo. 624,74 S.W. 851 |
Parties | STATE v. BEAGLES. |
Court | Missouri Supreme Court |
An information was filed against R. H. Beagles for defilement of his ward. A demurrer to the evidence was sustained on the ground that the information had been quashed, and the state brings error. Dismissed.
The Attorney General and C. D. Corum, for the State.
This record is before us on a writ of error sued out in behalf of the state. On the 27th day of January, 1902, the prosecuting attorney of Vernon county filed in the circuit court of said county an information against the defendant, charging him with the defilement of his ward. The defendant was arrested, duly arraigned, and pleaded "Not guilty." The cause was continued, and defendant entered into a recognizance for his appearance at the next term. At the May term, 1902, the cause was reached, and a jury impaneled, and the evidence on the part of the state was heard, and at its conclusion the record recites that Thereupon the jury...
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