47 Mo. 73 | Mo. | 1870
delivered the opinion of the court.
Defendant was indicted in Franklin county for selling liquor on Sunday, and demurred to the indictment, but was convicted, and appeals upon the .ground that the offense is not an indictable one. The misdemeanor act of March 27, 1868, p. 81, by prohibiting indictments for misdemeanors, by implication repealed section 30 of chapter 207, Gen. Stat. 1865, which provided for indictments where a fine, penalty, or forfeiture was inflicted. The act repealing the act of March 27, 1868, did not in terms restore said section, and can not do it by implication (Wagn. Stat. 894, § 3); so we are without any statutory provision authorizing indictments in such cases.
The attorney-general contends, and so the court below held, that a statutory offense, where no remedy or mode of punishment is provided, may be prosecuted by indictment, or any other common-law remedy adapted to the case. That is a sound view, but will not avail the State in this case, from the fact that another
the judgment is reversed.