66 Mo. App. 537 | Mo. Ct. App. | 1896
The information in this ease was drawn under section 3868 of the statute, which provides that “every person who shall falsely and maliciously charge or accuse any female of incest, fornication, adultery, or whoredom, by falsely speaking of and concerning such
Here follow the alleged slanderous words as spoken in the German language, which, omitting the innuendoes, were averred to mean and signify in English “that the house of Fridaricka Schindler is a bad house. * * * I (Joseph Boos) will have my girl away from that place; that house is no place for a young girl; * * * I will not have my girl in a whorehouse.”
On motion of the defendant the circuit court quashed the information, and the state has appealed.
With the concurrence of the other judges, the judgment of the circuit court will be affirmed. It is so ordered.