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10 Iowa 106

State v. Shilling

Supreme Court of Iowa

Decided December 6, 1859

Supreme Court of Iowa · decided 1859-12-06

INFORMATION containing three counts, filed before a justice of the peace, charging the defendant with selling intoxicating liquors. Before, the justice, the first and second counts were withdrawn by the State, and defendant was tried and convicted under the third. On appeal to the District Court he was found guilty on the first and second counts, and from this conviction appeals.

Decided 1859-12-06

Wright, C. J.

¶1This conviction was clearly irregular and unwarranted. The right of the State to again indict or file a second information for the offenses specified in the first and second counts, is not denied after entering a nolle prosequi as to them. But there is no principal justifying the trial of the defendant upon these counts after their withdrawal in the same proceeding, or on the same information. For this proceeding these counts ceased to have any vitality, *107any legal existence, and to try tbe defendant upon them, was to try him as it were without an indictment or information.

¶2Judgment reversed.

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