State v. Broderick
Citation | 70 Mo. 622 |
Parties | THE STATE v. BRODERICK, Appellant. |
Decision Date | 31 October 1879 |
Court | Missouri Supreme Court |
Appeal from St. Louis Court of Appeals.
AFFIRMED.
J. G. Lodge for appellant.
J. L. Smith, Attorney-General, for the State.
The defendant was indicted for the larceny of three mules, and on trial had, the jury returned the following verdict:
1. BILL OF EXCEPTIONS; judicial notice.
It is beyond our power to notice either the evidence or the instructions, because neither has been preserved by a bill of exceptions. What purports to be such bill was filed at the May term, 1878, while the trial took place at the March term of that year, and the motion for a new trial was denied at the trial term, and, thereupon, defendant asked and obtained leave to file his bill of exceptions by the 6th of June next thereafter. But this permission was not assented to by the prosecuting attorney, and such assent entered of record, and was, therefore, valueless. State v. Duckworth, 68 Mo. 156. The bill purports to have been filed on the 6th day of June; but this was after the March term had passed and during the May term, and we can take judicial notice as to the times prescribed for holding courts. State v. Jeffors, 64 Mo. 376.
2. LARCENY: embezzlement.
Though we are thus precluded from looking into either the evidence or instructions, yet the verdict being a part of the record, ( Bateson v. Clark, 37 Mo. 31,) we can examine it, and having done so, decide whether it conforms to the law, and the offense with which the defendant stands charged in the indictment. Looking at the verdict with this view, no error is perceived, for our statute expressly authorizes a person indicted for embezzlement to be convicted of larceny, and vice versa. 1 Wag. Stat., § 15, p. 514; State v. Porter, 26 Mo. 201. This statute was overlooked in the case of the State v. Stone, 68 Mo 101, which, but for that statute, was correctly decided, as it proceeded on a theory in entire accord with the general principles governing criminal pleadings. We, therefore overrule that case and affirm the judgment.
All concur.
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