State v. Hogan
State v. Hogan
Opinion of the Court
The defendant in this case was informed against by the prosecuting attorney for attempting to cause a pregnant woman to miscarry. Having been arraigned, he plead not guilty and a trial ensued before the judge of the St. Louis Court of Criminal Correction. The defendant was found guilty, and from the sentence imposed, the present appeal was prosecuted.
The first assignment of error is that no proof was made of the venue of the offense. The prosecuting witness swore she visited the defendant at his office at 2215 Olive street, not stating the city. Said witness related the circumstances of the crime as having occurred at that house. Olive street is one of the most important thoroughfares in the city of St. Louis, and is
Defendant’s counsel challenge the sufficiency of the evidence to warrant a conviction. To sustain this contention, we would have .to wholly ignore the testimony of the prosecuting witness and other items of evidence. Not only her testimony, but some circumstances in proof, tended to shoAV the defendant was guilty and are sufficient to support the verdict. We will not recite the testimony, which is of a disgusting nature, but content ourselves with saying that there Avas abundant evidence of a substantial character to prove defendant’s guilt, precluding us from interfering with the finding of the court below. [State v. Huff, 164 Mo. 480, 65 S. W. 256.]
The judgment is affirmed.
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