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130 Mo. 480

State v. Buck

Supreme Court of Missouri

Decided November 19, 1895

Supreme Court of Missouri · decided 1895-11-19

— Hon. W. N. Evans, Judge. (1) The evidence does not support the allegations of the petition. (2) It was the duty of the trial judge to fully instruct upon what it took to constitute perjury and to have determined as to whether the facts alleged in the indicttnent as to the assignment of perjury were material or not. It was the province of the court and not the jury to determine the materiality of the facts alleged to' have been «sworn to. State v. Williams, 30 Mo. 364.

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

“contains a direction to the clerk to copy the same,”

quoted by 1 later decision, including O'Malley v. Continental Life Insurance

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Affirmed · Decided 1895-11-19

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Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently November 1938

6 state decisions

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Shebwood, J.

¶1Convicted of perjury, and his punishment assessed at two years in the penitentiary, defendant- appeals to this court. The indictment follows approved forms, and is sufficient.

¶2The evidence, however, though referred to in the bill of exceptions as contained in index sheets marked A and B herewith filed and attached and made a part of this bill of exceptions, constitutes no part of the bill.

¶3Section 2304, Revised Statutes, 1889, provides that: “But it shall not be necessary, for the review of .the *482action of any lower court on appeal or writ of error, that the motion for a new trial, in arrest of judgment, or instructions filed with the lower court, shall be copied or set forth in the bill of exceptions filed in the lower •court; provided, the bill of exceptions so filed contains a direction to the clerk. to copy the same, and the same are so copied into the record sent up to the appellate court.”

¶4Under the old regime, such motions and instructions had to be incorporated in the .bill of exceptions, but this statute has worked a change in this regard as therein specified; but that is the extent of the change; the evidence has, as formerly, to be incorporated into the bill, and can not be made part thereof, except by incorporation therein; reference thereto in the bill will not do. State v. Griffin, 98 Mo. loc. cit. 675.

¶5As the evidence, for this reason, can not be noticed, the same is true respecting the instructions, because it would be impossible properly to pass upon them, unless it were known what the evidence is. It results from these premises that the judgment should be affirmed.

All concur.
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