State v. Thompson
State v. Thompson
Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Felix Thompson appeals from a conviction upon a charge of maintaining a statutory nuisance by keeping a place where intoxicating liquors were unlawfully sold.
Complaint is made of the admission of the testimony of a witness whose name was, not indorsed on the information. The witness in question was the assistant attorney-general, who had verified the information by his positive aifidavit. He was the complainant, and it was not necessary that his name should be so indorsed in order to warn the defendant to be ready to meet such testimony as he might be able to give. The case is within the reason of the rule applied in The State v. Bundy, 71 Kan. 779, 81 Pac. 459, where in a prosecution under the prohibitory law based upon testimony taken before the county attorney it was held to be unnecessary to indorse upon the information the names of witnesses whose sworn statements so obtained were attached thereto.
The judgment is therefore reversed.
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- The State of Kansas v. Felix Thompson
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- SYLLABUS BY THE COURT. 1. Information — Indorsing Names of Witnesses. Where a defendant is prosecuted for a violation of the prohibitory law upon an information verified positively by an assistant attorney-general, he cannot complain that such officer is permitted to testify without his name having been indorsed thereon as a witness. 2. Intoxicating Liquors — Nuisance—Keeper. The evidence examined and held not to support a conviction.