6 Mo. 208 | Mo. | 1839
Laporte was indicted in the circuit court of St. Genevieve county, and on his motion a change of venue was awarded to the county of St. Francois. The clerk of the circuit court of St. Genevieve county sent to the circuit court of St. Francois county nothing of the record but the caption and recognizance, and the order for a change of venue, purporting to be made on motion of the defendant.
In the circuit court of St. Francois county, Laporte the defendant moved that the cause be stricken from the docket and that he be discharged from his recognizance for reasons filed, the sum of which is that the record showed no charge against him. The circuit court overruled the motion, and on motion of the circuit attorney ordered the papers in the cause to be remanded to the circuit court of St. Genevieve county to be perfected by the clerk of said court, and certified according to law to the next term of the circuit court of St. Francois county. To this decision of the court exception was taken, and the matter was assigned for error.
The more usual and regulai way of doing such business, is for the circuit attorney to move for a writ of certiorari directed to the circuit court of St. Genevieve county, to send up the record, which the circuit court of St. Francois county, on the suggestion of a diminution of the record then before the court, by the circuit attorney would have ordered to be issued. The mode adopted by that court seems to he equally efficient, and it does not appear that the defendant is likely to be in, a worse situation for that. The delay is not unreasonable or uncommon. It was his own act to
In the case of Adam R. and James Johnson against the State on an indictment for a malicious prosecution for like . . . , reasons the same order is made. ,