47 Mo. App. 650 | Mo. Ct. App. | 1892
The defendant was tried and convicted before a justice of the peace for an assault and battery. He appealed to the circuit court. The circuit court quashed the information, and the state has appealed. The sufficiency of the information is the only question in the case.
The information reads:
“Edward A. Rosier, prosecuting attorney for Ste. Genevieve county, Missouri, informs E. D. Carter, justice of the peace, as aforesaid, that, on the seventh (?) day of October, 1889, at and in said county of Ste. Genevieve and state of Missouri, one O. P. McCarver did then and there make an assault upon one Joel E. Bowling, and with a stick did beat and strike him-, the said Bowling, against the peace and dignity of the state.
“Edward A. Rosier,
“Prosecuting Attorney.”
There was also an affidavit filed by the prosecuting witness as follows:
“ State oe Missouri, .]
‘ ‘ County of Ste. Genevieve, j
“On this fifth day of October, 1889, personally came before me a justice of the peace within and for said county, Joel E. Bowling, who being duly sworn upon his oath stated that one O. P. McCarver did, on the fifth day of October, 1889, in said county of Ste. Genevieve, unlawfully strike Joel E. Bowling with a stick of wood about two feet long, with intent to do great bodily injury.
“ Joel E. Bowling.
“ Subscribed and sworn to,. this seventh day of October, 1889. “ E. D. Carter,
‘1J ustice of the Peace. ’ ’
Under this view the principal objection made to the information, that it failed to state that the prosecuting attorney had personal knowledge of the commission of the offense, is eliminated from the case. All the cases agree that this is unnecessary when the information is predicated on the affidavit of a third person. State v. Wilkson, 36 Mo. App. 373; State v. Humble, 34 Mo. App. 343; State v. Hatfield, 40 Mo. App. 358; State v. Buck, 43 Mo. App. 443.
Neither was it necessary for the prosecuting attorney to annex his affidavit to the information. Nor was it necessary to state in the information that it was accompanied by the affidavit of a third person. State v. Fletchall, 31 Mo. App. 301; State v. Wilkson, supra; State v. Ransberger, 42 Mo. App. 466.
But if the affidavit was out of the case, the information would still be good under a recent decision of the supreme court in the case of State v. Ransberger (reported in 17 S. W. Rep. 290), in which the cases of State v. Wilkson, supra; State v. Buck, supra, and
It necessarily follows that the order of the court, quashing the information, must be set aside, and the cause remanded.