Case Name: The State v. Huddleston, Appellant
Court: Supreme Court of Missouri
Jurisdiction: Missouri
Decision Date: 1882-10
Citations: 75 Mo. 667
Docket Number: 
Parties: The State v. Huddleston, Appellant.
Judges: The other judges concur.
Reporter: Missouri Reports
Volume: 75
Pages: 667–668

Head Matter:
The State v. Huddleston, Appellant.
Practice, Criminal: prosecution of misdemeanors, A conviction for a misdemeanor upon an affidavit filed by a private person alone, and without an information of the prosecuting attorney, is illegal and void. Sess. Acts 1877, p. 355, § 6.
Error to Oregon Circuit Court. — Hon. J. R. ■ Woodside, Judge.
Reversed.
L. B. Woodside for plaintiff in error.
D. H. McIntyre, Attorney General, for the State.

Opinion:
Hough, J.
At the May term, 1878, of the Oregon circuit court, the defendant was tried and convicted upon an affidavit, made by a private person, charging him. with unlawfully and willfully disturbing the peace of a school. No information was filed by the prosecuting attorney, based upon said affidavit, as provided by the law then in force, (Acts 1877, p. 355, § 6,) and the conviction was, therefore, illegal and void. The judgment will be reversed.
The other judges concur.