The Southwestern Reporter, Volume 20West Publishing Company, 1893 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... prove that he shot him in self - defense . Held , that it was reversible error to fail to in . struct the jury in regard to manslaughter . 2. Where defendant and deceased have been on friendly terms till the day of the homicide it is ...
... prove that he shot him in self - defense . Held , that it was reversible error to fail to in . struct the jury in regard to manslaughter . 2. Where defendant and deceased have been on friendly terms till the day of the homicide it is ...
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... proves more than it is required to prove ? Here the state proved , and the jury found , that the defendant sold the check knowing it to be forged , with intent to have it passed , but it did not stop at this ; it went fur- or ...
... proves more than it is required to prove ? Here the state proved , and the jury found , that the defendant sold the check knowing it to be forged , with intent to have it passed , but it did not stop at this ; it went fur- or ...
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... prove that Yarbrough was killed while plowing in his field . The de- fendant Woolard lived eight or nine miles from Yarbrough , and had lived there for eight or nine years . F. M. Maberry testi- fied that he never heard defendant speak ...
... prove that Yarbrough was killed while plowing in his field . The de- fendant Woolard lived eight or nine miles from Yarbrough , and had lived there for eight or nine years . F. M. Maberry testi- fied that he never heard defendant speak ...
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... prove that his mare was fright- ened by the engine , and by reason of such fright ran into the fence and was killed . Evidence of the manner in which the en- gine was handled was therefore relevant and material . 6. It is insisted that ...
... prove that his mare was fright- ened by the engine , and by reason of such fright ran into the fence and was killed . Evidence of the manner in which the en- gine was handled was therefore relevant and material . 6. It is insisted that ...
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... proved that the money was taken by means of burglary , would be ev- idence tending to prove both the burglary and larceny . State v . Owens , 79 Mo. 625 . 5. While the statute allows a joinder of the charges of burglary and larceny in ...
... proved that the money was taken by means of burglary , would be ev- idence tending to prove both the burglary and larceny . State v . Owens , 79 Mo. 625 . 5. While the statute allows a joinder of the charges of burglary and larceny in ...
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Page 92 - No county, city, town, township, school district or other political corporation or subdivision of the state shall be allowed to become indebted in any manner, or for any purpose, to an amount exceeding in any year the income and revenue provided for such year, without the assent of two-thirds of the voters thereof, voting at an election to be held for that purpose...
Page 336 - State, but also to establish for the intercourse of citizens with citizens those rules of good manners and good neighborhood which are calculated to prevent a conflict of rights, and to insure to each the uninterrupted enjoyment of his own so far as is reasonably consistent with a like enjoyment of rights by others.
Page 106 - No election shall be declared invalid by reason of a non-compliance with the rules contained in...
Page 336 - For, the very idea that one man may be compelled to hold his life, or the means of living, or any material right essential to the enjoyment of life, at the mere will of another, seems to be intolerable in any country where freedom prevails, as being the essence of slavery itself.
Page 325 - But acts done in the proper exercise of governmental powers, and not directly encroaching upon private property, though their consequences may impair its use, are universally held not to be a taking within the meaning of the constitutional provision.
Page 33 - An issue of fact, in an action for the recovery of money only, or of specific, real or personal property, or for a divorce from the marriage contract on the ground of adultery, must be tried by a jury, unless a jury trial be waived as provided in section 2.'uJ.
Page 166 - Any person, agent, or officer of any association or corporation violating the provisions of this act shall, upon conviction, be fined in any sum not less than $25 nor more than $100 for each day each car belonging to and used by any such person, association or corporation is...
Page 336 - Rights of property, like all other social and conventional rights, are subject to such reasonable limitations in their enjoyment as shall prevent them from being injurious, and to such reasonable restraints and regulations established by law, as the legislature, under the governing and controlling power vested in them by the Constitution, may think necessary and expedient.
Page 168 - Without attempting to review and reconcile all the cases, we are of opinion that, as a general description, though perhaps not a precise and accurate definition, a conspiracy must be a combination of two or more persons by some concerted action to accomplish some criminal or unlawful purpose, or to accomplish some purpose not In itself criminal or unlawful by criminal or unlawful means.
Page 92 - Any county, city, school district or other municipal corporation incurring any indebtedness as aforesaid, shall before, or at the time of doing so, provide for the collection of a direct annual tax sufficient to pay the interest on such debt as it falls due, and also to pay and discharge the principal thereof within twenty years from the time of contracting the same.