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MO Rev Stat § 545.160 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 545 - Proceedings Before Trial|Section 545.160 - Venue, how stated.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   545.160. Venue, how stated. — It shall not be necessary to state any venue in the body of any indictment or information; but the county or other jurisdiction named in the margin thereof shall be taken to be the venue for all the facts stated in the body of the same. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3944)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3555; 1919 § 3900; 1909 § 5107
MO Rev Stat § 545.170 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 545 - Proceedings Before Trial|Section 545.170 - Intent to injure or defraud, how charged.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   545.170. Intent to injure or defraud, how charged. — It shall be sufficient in any indictment for any offense where an intent to injure, cheat or defraud shall be necessary to constitute the offense, to allege that the defendant did the act with such intent, without alleging the intent of the defendant to be to injure, cheat or defraud any particular person; and on the trial of such offense, it shall not be necessary to prove an intent on the part of the defendant to injure, cheat or defraud any particular person, but it shall be sufficient to prove that the defendant did the act charged with an intent to injure, cheat or defraud. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 4862)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 4469; 1919 § 3710; 1909 § 4921  (1972) Although information charged that defendant tendered a no account check willfully, unlawfully and feloniously with intent to cheat and defraud a specific person, court held that it was sufficient to prove that defendant did the act charged with an intent to injure, cheat or defraud, and that such did not deny defendant due process of law. State v. Bywaters (Mo.), 476 S.W.2d 588.
MO Rev Stat § 545.180 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 545 - Proceedings Before Trial|Section 545.180 - Certain indictments, what designation sufficient.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   545.180. Certain indictments, what designation sufficient. — In any indictment for forging, uttering, stealing, embezzling, destroying or concealing, or for obtaining by color of any false token, writing, or false pretenses, any instrument or property, it shall be sufficient to describe such instrument or property by any name or designation by which the same may be usually known, or by the purport thereof, without setting out any copy or facsimile thereof, or otherwise describing the same, or the value thereof. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3945)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3556; 1919 § 3901; 1909 § 5108
MO Rev Stat § 545.190 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 545 - Proceedings Before Trial|Section 545.190 - Identification of counterfeiting equipment.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   545.190. Identification of counterfeiting equipment. — In any indictment for engraving or making the whole or any part of any instrument, matter or thing whatsoever, or for using or having the unlawful possession of any plate or other material upon which the whole or any part of any instrument, matter or thing whatsoever shall have been engraved or made, or for having the unlawful possession of any paper upon which the whole or any part of any instrument, matter or thing whatsoever shall have been made or printed, it shall be sufficient to describe such instrument, matter or thing by any name or designation by which the same may be usually known, without setting out any copy or facsimile of the whole or any part of such instrument, matter or thing. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3946)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3557; 1919 § 3902; 1909 § 5109
MO Rev Stat § 545.200 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 545 - Proceedings Before Trial|Section 545.200 - Instruments, how described.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   545.200. Instruments, how described. — In all other cases, whenever it shall be necessary to make any averment in any indictment as to any instrument, whether the same consists wholly or in part of writing, print or figures, it shall be sufficient to describe such instrument by any name or designation by which the same may be usually known, or by the purport thereof, without setting out any copy or facsimile of the whole or any part thereof. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3947)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3558; 1919 § 3903; 1909 § 5110
MO Rev Stat § 545.210 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 545 - Proceedings Before Trial|Section 545.210 - Money or note, how described.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   545.210. Money or note, how described. — In every indictment in which it shall be necessary to make any averment as to any money or any note, being or purporting to be made or issued by any bank incorporated by law, or made or issued by virtue of any law of the United States, it shall be sufficient to describe such money or note simply as money, without specifying any particular coin or note; and such allegation shall be sustained by proof of any amount of coin, or of any such note, although the particular species of coin of which such amount was composed, or the particular nature of such note, shall not be proved; and in cases of larceny, embezzlement and obtaining money or such notes by false pretenses, by proof that the offender stole, embezzled or obtained any piece of coin, or any such note, or any portion of the value thereof, although such piece of coin or such note may have been delivered to him, in order that some part of the value thereof should be returned to the party delivering the same or to any other person, and such part shall have been returned accordingly. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3948)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3559; 1919 § 3904; 1909 § 5111
MO Rev Stat § 545.220 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 545 - Proceedings Before Trial|Section 545.220 - Demurrer or motion to quash indictment must specify grounds.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   545.220. Demurrer or motion to quash indictment must specify grounds. — A demurrer to or motion to quash an indictment shall distinctly specify the grounds of objection to the indictment; unless it does so, it shall be disregarded, nor shall any reason be held to sustain such demurrer or motion not specified therein. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3949)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3560; 1919 § 3905; 1909 § 5112  CROSS REFERENCE:  Appeal by state, when demurrer to indictment sustained, 547.210
MO Rev Stat § 545.230 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 545 - Proceedings Before Trial|Section 545.230 - Indictment by wrong name.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   545.230. Indictment by wrong name. — If a defendant be indicted by the wrong name, unless he declare his true name before pleading, he shall be proceeded against by the name in the indictment. If he allege that another name is his true name, it must be entered in the minutes of the court; and after such entry, the trial and all other proceedings on the indictment shall be had against him by that name, referring also to the name by which he is indicted, in the same manner, in all respects, and with the same consequences as if he had been indicted by his true name. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3950)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3561; 1919 § 3906; 1909 § 5113  (1964) Court erred in sustaining motion to dismiss information on ground that name in information was fictitious where name used was alter ego of corporation and no claim was made that defendant was not the person informed against. City of St. Louis v. Capital Vending Co. (A.), 374 S.W.2d 519.
MO Rev Stat § 545.240 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 545 - Proceedings Before Trial|Section 545.240 - Informations — how filed, verified.

Effective - 28 Aug 1997   545.240. Informations — how filed, verified. — Informations may be filed by the prosecuting attorney as informant during term time, or with the clerk in vacation, of the court having jurisdiction of the offense specified therein. All informations shall state the name of the prosecuting attorney and be verified by his oath or by the oath of some person competent to testify as a witness in the case, or be supported by the affidavit of such person, which shall be filed with the information; the verification by the prosecuting attorney may be upon information and belief; all in the manner provided by supreme court rule. The names of the witnesses for the prosecution must be affixed to the information, in like manner and subject to the same restrictions as required in case of indictments. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3894, A.L. 1997 S.B. 248)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3504; 1919 § 3849; 1909 § 5057  CROSS REFERENCE:  Misdemeanor prosecutions, Chap. 543  (1951) Where accused does not attack information by motion to quash, failure of assistant prosecuting attorney to sign it, is unavailing on appeal. State v. Taylor, 362 Mo. 676, 243 S.W.2d 301. (1951) Trial court has large discretion in granting leave to endorse names of witnesses on indictment at beginning of trial. State v. Farris (Mo.), 243 S.W.2d 983. (1960) Information signed by an assistant prosecuting attorney of Jackson County held sufficient. State v. Easley (Mo.), 338 S.W.2d 884. (1964) Where information is supported by affidavit of private individual that individual must have actual knowledge of the offense but verification of information by prosecuting attorney may be upon information and belief. State v. Statler (Mo.), 383 S.W.2d 534. (1967) It is only where the information is supported by the affidavit of a private individual that such person must have actual knowledge of the offense, and the prosecuting attorney may verify an information upon information and belief. State v. Crump (Mo.), 412 S.W.2d 490.
MO Rev Stat § 545.250 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 545 - Proceedings Before Trial|Section 545.250 - Who may make affidavit.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   545.250. Who may make affidavit. — When any person has knowledge of the commission of a crime, he may make his affidavit before any person authorized to administer oaths, setting forth the offense and the person or persons charged therewith, and file the same with the clerk of the court having jurisdiction of the offense, for the use of the prosecuting attorney, or deposit it with the prosecuting attorney, furnishing also the names of the witnesses for the prosecution; and it shall be the duty of the prosecuting attorney to file an information, as soon as practicable, upon said affidavit, as directed in section 545.240. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3895)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3505; 1919 § 3850; 1909 § 5058  (2015) Section does not authorize the Public Service Commission to order an electric utility to sell its street lights to municipality absent its consent. City of O'Fallon v. Union Electric Co., 462 S.W.3d 438 (Mo.App.W.D.).
MO Rev Stat § 545.260 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 545 - Proceedings Before Trial|Section 545.260 - Lost affidavit, how replaced.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   545.260. Lost affidavit, how replaced. — If the affidavit or information shall be lost or destroyed, the prosecuting attorney may file another, and the case shall proceed without any delay from that cause. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3897)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3507; 1919 § 3852; 1909 § 5060
MO Rev Stat § 545.270 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 545 - Proceedings Before Trial|Section 545.270 - Form of information.

Effective - 28 Aug 1997   545.270. Form of information. — An information filed in writing and as allowed by supreme court rule may be in the following form:    The State of Missouri  )   against ) In the ______ court.   A ______ B______.  )   C M, prosecuting attorney within and for the county of ______, in the state of Missouri, informs the court that A B, on the ______ day of ______, A.D. 20______, at the said county of ______, did then and there ______ (here set out the offense as in an indictment).   C M, prosecuting attorney.   C M, prosecuting attorney (or E F, as the case may be), makes oath and says that the facts stated in the foregoing information are true, according to his best information and belief.   Subscribed and sworn to before me, this ______ day of ______, A.D. 20______.   G H (style of office).   ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3896, A.L. 1997 S.B. 248)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3506; 1919 § 3851; 1909 § 5059
MO Rev Stat § 545.280 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 545 - Proceedings Before Trial|Section 545.280 - Prosecuting witness, who deemed.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   545.280. Prosecuting witness, who deemed. — When the information is based on an affidavit filed with the clerk or delivered to the prosecuting attorney, as provided for in section 545.250, the person who made such affidavit shall be deemed the prosecuting witness, and in all cases in which by law an indictment is required to be endorsed by a prosecutor, the person who makes the affidavit upon which the information is based, or who verifies the information, shall be deemed the prosecutor; and in case the prosecution shall fail from any cause, or the defendant shall be acquitted, such prosecuting witness or prosecutor shall be liable for the costs in the case not otherwise adjudged by the court, but the prosecuting attorney shall not be liable for costs in any case. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3900)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3510; 1919 § 3855; 1909 § 5063  (1967) Court Rule 29.01 expands the requirement of section 545.280 and imposes the duty upon the court to advise a defendant, upon arraignment, of his right to counsel and upon request to appoint counsel for an indigent defendant. State v. Maxwell (Mo.), 411 S.W.2d 237.
MO Rev Stat § 545.290 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 545 - Proceedings Before Trial|Section 545.290 - Statute of jeofails applicable to proceedings by information.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   545.290. Statute of jeofails applicable to proceedings by information. — The statute of jeofails, as applicable to criminal pleadings and proceedings in prosecutions by indictment, shall apply to all proceedings in prosecutions by information; and any affidavit or information may be amended in matter of form or substance at any time by leave of court before the trial, and on the trial as to all matters of form and variance, at the discretion of the court, when the same can be done without prejudice to the substantial rights of the defendant, on the merits, and no amendment shall cause any delay of the trial, except at the instance of the defendant for good cause shown by affidavit. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3898)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3508; 1919 § 3853; 1909 § 5061  (1951) Amendment of forgery information, after jury was sworn, to change date of offense from 13th of November to 14th, where check set out in information was dated "11-1449" held not erroneous. State v. Redding, 362 Mo. 39, 239 S.W.2d 494. (1953) Amendment of information in robbery prosecution after trial had commenced to allege that person upon whom assault was made was agent of owner and in possession of money, held a matter of form only and not erroneous. State v. Stidham (Mo.), 258 S.W.2d 620. (1960) The allowance of an amendment to a robbery information after close of state's case to charge that the amount taken from individual was $55 instead of $193 held proper where evidence showed that amount. State v. Clark (Mo.), 331 S.W.2d 588. (1971) Amendment of information during trial in burglary prosecution to allege offense occurred between 11 p.m., March 31, 1970, and 12:35 a.m., April 1, 1970, instead of on April 1, 1970, held within judge's discretion. State v. Fowler (Mo.), 473 S.W.2d 353. (1971) Defendant is not entitled to be released simply because the required number of terms have elapsed. He must show that he has demanded a trial and that such request was made without success for a reasonable length of time before his right to release is asserted. Failure to take affirmative action seeking speedy trial constitutes a waiver of that right and thus defendant's motion for discharge was correctly overruled. State v. Harper (Mo.), 473 S.W.2d 419.
MO Rev Stat § 545.300 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 545 - Proceedings Before Trial|Section 545.300 - Informations — amendment — substitution for defective indictment.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   545.300. Informations — amendment — substitution for defective indictment. — An information may be amended either as to form or substance at any time before the jury is sworn, but no such amendment shall be allowed as would operate to charge an offense different from that charged or attempted to be charged in the original information. If an indictment be held to be insufficient either as to form or substance, an information charging the same offense charged or attempted to be charged in such indictment may be substituted therefor at any time before the jury is sworn. No amendment of the information or substitution of an information for an indictment as herein provided shall cause a delay of the trial unless the defendant shall satisfy the court that such amendment or substitution has made it necessary that he have additional time in which to prepare his defense. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3953)  Prior revision: 1929 § 3564  (1953) The right of the state to substitute an information for a defective indictment is intended to be exercised in the discretion of the prosecuting attorney and court has no power to control such discretion. State ex rel. Downs v. Kimberlin, 364 Mo. 215, 260 S.W.2d 552. (1956) Where conviction was had on information based on city ordinance which was repealed at time of alleged offense, appellate court could not remand case for trial on ordinance which was in effect at such time, where the later ordinance was not in evidence. City of St. Louis v. Vetter (A.), 293 S.W.2d 140. (1957) Order holding indictment insufficient held not necessary in order to permit substitution of information therefor. State v. Green (Mo.), 305 S.W.2d 863. (1958) It was not abuse of discretion for trial judge to permit amendment of information charging robbery in first degree so as to charge defendant also as a habitual criminal when the record did not evidence any bad faith on part of prosecuting attorney and the state had additional evidence to show three prior felony convictions and subsequent discharge therefor though the jury failed to convict defendant thereunder. State v. Whitaker (Mo.), 312 S.W.2d 34. (1966) Indictment cannot be amended by the court or the prosecuting attorney, but only by the grand jury which has returned it. State v. Holbert (A.), 399 S.W.2d 142.
MO Rev Stat § 545.310 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 545 - Proceedings Before Trial|Section 545.310 - Issuance of warrant — recognizance after arrest.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   545.310. Issuance of warrant — recognizance after arrest. — Upon the filing of the information, a warrant shall issue for the apprehension of the person charged with the offense, unless he be in custody or voluntarily surrender himself in custody of the court; and if such warrant be issued in term, it shall be made returnable forthwith; but if issued in vacation, it shall be made returnable at the next term thereafter; and if defendant be arrested during the term he shall be brought into court, but if he be arrested in vacation of the court, the officer making the arrest shall admit him to bail in a recognizance in any sum not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, with good and sufficient sureties, to be approved by such officer, conditioned for the personal appearance of the defendant in the court in which the case is pending on the first day of the next term thereof, and not depart without leave, which recognizance shall be returned with the warrant and filed in the court; and in default of the prisoner to give such recognizance, he shall be committed to the jail of the county by the officer until the next term of court, or until he gives such recognizance, and if default be made in such recognizance, the same shall be adjudged forfeited, and shall be proceeded on as other recognizances in criminal cases. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3901)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3511; 1919 § 3856; 1909 § 5064
MO Rev Stat § 545.320 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 545 - Proceedings Before Trial|Section 545.320 - Issuance of subpoenas for state witnesses.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   545.320. Issuance of subpoenas for state witnesses. — No subpoena for a witness in any criminal case shall be issued on the part of the state, unless the name of such witness be endorsed on the indictment or information, or the prosecuting attorney shall order the same to be issued, in writing, or the prosecutor shall file an affidavit that other witnesses ordered by him are positively necessary for a complete adjudication of the case; and no subpoena shall issue for any witness unless the defendant is in custody or on bail, or the clerk or associate circuit judge shall have good reason to believe that he will be apprehended. Subpoenas may be issued to different counties at the same time, but all the witnesses ordered at one time, and living in the same county, shall be included in one subpoena. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 4229)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3834; 1919 § 4177; 1909 § 5385  CROSS REFERENCE:  Attendance of witnesses from without state, 491.400 to 491.450
MO Rev Stat § 545.330 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 545 - Proceedings Before Trial|Section 545.330 - Issuance of subpoenas for defense witnesses.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   545.330. Issuance of subpoenas for defense witnesses. — The defendant shall be entitled to process for witnesses to be issued and directed to the sheriff of the county in which such witnesses may be; but all the witnesses in the same county shall be included in one subpoena, and no subsequent subpoena shall be issued for any witness, unless the court in which the cause is pending or the judge or associate circuit judge, shall for good cause shown, order a subpoena for another witness; or if, in absence of the judge, the defendant shall file with the clerk his affidavit that other witnesses ordered by him are material and positively necessary in his behalf, to a full and complete adjudication of the case, the clerk shall issue subpoenas for such witness. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 4231)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3836; 1919 § 4179; 1909 § 5387  CROSS REFERENCES:  Compulsory process for witnesses, right of defendant, Const. Art. I § 18  Habeas corpus ad testificandum in criminal cases generally, 491.230 to 491.270
MO Rev Stat § 545.340 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 545 - Proceedings Before Trial|Section 545.340 - Disobedience to subpoena, how punished.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   545.340. Disobedience to subpoena, how punished. — Disobedience to any such subpoena shall be punished in the same manner and upon like proceedings as provided by law in civil cases; and every delinquent witness shall be liable to the party at whose instance he was summoned, in the same manner and to the same extent as in cases of witnesses summoned in a civil suit. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 4008)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3619; 1919 § 3962; 1909 § 5169  CROSS REFERENCE:  Attendance of witness, how enforced, 491.140 to 491.170, 491.190