The State v. Tong
Decision Date | 02 May 1893 |
Parties | The State v. Hang Tong, Appellant |
Court | Missouri Supreme Court |
22 S.W. 381
115 Mo. 389
The State v. Hang Tong, Appellant
Supreme Court of Missouri, Second Division
May 2, 1893
Appeal from St. Louis Criminal Court. -- Hon. G. A. Castleman Judge.
Reversed.
Thos B. Harvey for appellant.
(1) There must be a wrongful and felonious purpose in the mind of the accessary before he can be convicted. State v Hollenscheit, 61 Mo. 302; State v. Hickam, 95 Mo. 322. (2) The indictment should allege that the defendant "then and there feloniously was present, aiding, abetting and assisting the said," etc. 1 Bishop Criminal Procedure, sec. 535; 2 Bishop Procedure, sec. 5; 1 Wharton Prec. & Pleas, 97; State v. Doyle, 107 Mo. 36; State v. Clayton, 100 Mo. 516.
R. F. Walker, Attorney General, for the state.
The second count of the indictment under which this defendant was tried and convicted is insufficient, in that it fails to charge that defendant was feloniously "present, aiding and abetting, advising and counseling" his principal in the commission of the felony. The omission of this necessary allegation is fatal, and the cause must be reversed. Revised Statutes 1889, secs. 3489, 3944; State v. Clayton, 100 Mo. 516.
Gantt, P. J.
The defendant was indicted by the grand jury in the city of St. Louis for aiding and abetting Lee Qua Leang in an assault with intent to kill Jew Gung and Low Back, on the seventeenth of April, 1892. He was convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary for three years.
The indictment is in words and figures as follows:
"State of Missouri, "City of St. Louis] ss. "St. Louis Criminal Court, July Term, 1892.
"The grand jurors of the state of Missouri within and for the body of the city of St. Louis, now here in court, duly empaneled sworn and charged, upon their oath present, that Lee Qua Leang, late of the city of St. Louis aforesaid, and state aforesaid, on the seventeenth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, at the city of St. Louis aforesaid with force and arms in and upon one Jew Gung and Low Back, feloniously, willfully, on purpose and of his malice aforethought did make an assault, and the said Lee Qua Leang with a certain weapon, to-wit, a pistol loaded with gunpowder and leaden balls -- then and there, feloniously, willfully, on purpose and of his malice aforethought, did shoot off, at, against and upon said Jew Gung and Low Back, in and upon the body of each of them, the said Jew Gung and Low Back, with the pistol aforesaid, one wound, with the intent then and there them, the said Jew Gung and Low Back, feloniously, willfully, on purpose and of his malice aforethought to kill.
"And the grand jurors aforesaid, upon their oaths aforesaid, do further present that Hang Tong, late of the city of St. Louis aforesaid, was then and there present, aiding and abetting advising and counseling...
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