Case ID: mo_31/html/0342-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Napton, Judge,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The State, Appellant, v. Hogan, Respondent.
    t. Where the words endorsed on an indictment “a true bill-, foreman of the jury” are printed, and the name of the foreman was appended to the words descriptive of his office, instead of preceding them, the indictment should not be qhashed.
    2. Nor is it sufficient cause for quashing an indictment that the record does not show that the bill was filed, nor on what day it was filed.
    
      Appeal from Taney Circuit Court.
    
    Knott, (attorney general,) for the State.
   Napton, Judge,

delivered the opinion of the court.

There was a motion to quash this indictment because in the endorsement on it the words “a true bill: --, foreman of the jury,” were printed, and the name of the foreman of the grand jury, instead of preceding the words descriptive of his office, was appended to them. There tvas also an objection that the record did not show that the bill was filed, or on what day it was filed. The motion to quash quash was overruled and the judgment of the circuit court is affirmed.

Judge Ewing concurs. Judge Scott absent.