46 Mo. App. 9 | Mo. Ct. App. | 1891
Defendants were charged before a justice of the peace for unlawfully disturbing the peace of the prosecuting witness and others. The information of the prosecuting attorney was based on the affidavit of R. P. Moore, filed with the justice, wherein the, offense is charged “to the best knowledge, belief and information” of the affiant. The defendants were convicted in a trial in the justice’s court. Defendants thereupon appealed to the circuit court, where, on a motion filed by said defendants, the information was quashed, and the state appealed.
Whatever may be said as to the legality of the information proper (as filed by the prosecuting attorney ), it is clear that the affidavit, on which the same
We are of the opinion, then, that the motion to quash the information was properly sustained, and affirm the judgment.