State v. Johnson
State v. Johnson
Opinion of the Court
Appellants were tried and convicted in the circuit court of Dade county, Missouri, on an information charging that “defendants Linville
This case is similar in many respects to that of State of Missouri v. Pete Brown et al., decided this day. The informations in the two cases follow the same form, both cases were tried in the circuit court of Dade county on the same day, and the briefs in this court in the two cases are almost identical. Upon trial, defendants were found guilty and a fine of thirty dollars was assessed against each. The case is here on their appeal.
As in the Brown case, after announcing ready for trial, defendants presented a motion to quash the information alleging the same grounds as were alleged in the motion to quash in that case, and they make the same complaint in this appeal as in that concerning the omission from the information of the names of the witnesses for the prosecution. We covered that point fully in the opinion in the' Brown case and reference thereto is made for the discussion.
Appellants also contend in this case as they do in the Brown case that the trial court should have sustained their motion to quash the information upon the ground, therein alleged, that no offense prohibited by the laws of the state of Missouri was charged therein. As we have said, the information, follows the same form as that in the Brown case. We disposed of this question in the opinion in that case and adopt what we there said as a part of this opinion.
Appellants assign as error the action of the trial court in refusing at the.close of the state’s evidence in chief to give a peremptory instruction to the jury to
Defendants did not testify. It seems that some of those engaged in this same game were tried in a justice’s court before this case was tried in the circuit court. Defendants in this case by two witnesses sought to show that the state’s witness in this ease testified in that case before the justice and that he stated in that case that he did not see or hear any money and that he only saw the motions of the arms a77d two checks of Dade county banks. This attempt to impeach the state’s witness was the extent of the evidence offered by the defendants and the jury hq.d a right to
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