State v. Jacobs’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “‘“PROSECUTING WITNESS, WHO DEEMED. — When the in- formation is based on an affidavit filed with the clerk or delivered to the prosecuting attorney, as provided for in Section 3505, 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 indorsed by.a prosecutor, the person Avho 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 thé case not otherwise adjudged by the court, but the prosecuting attorney shall not be liable for costs in any case.” (Italics ours.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 234 Mo. App. 827 - State v. Kemp

2. ““No indictment for any trespass against the person or property of another . . . shall be preferred unless the name of a prosecutor-is indorsed as such thereon, . . . except where the same is preferred upon the information and testimony of one or more grand jurors, or of some public officer in the necessary discharge of his duty.”' (Italics ours.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 234 Mo. App. 827 - State v. Kemp