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81 Kan. 202

State v. Labore

Supreme Court of Kansas

Decided November 6, 1909

Supreme Court of Kansas · decided 1909-11-06

<p>Appeal from Decatur district court; William H. Pratt, judge.</p>

Relies on State v. Everett · State v. Ratner

Affirmed · Decided 1909-11-06

Per Curiam:

¶1It may be conceded that the information was defective in form because it charged the offense in general terms, and if the attention of the court had been called to this the state would doubtless have been required to make the charge more definite. The motion to quash set up the usual grounds in general terms. When asked by the court to point out the de*203fects in the information counsel for the appellant declined to do so, saying that the motion was formal and that he knew of no particular defect. By declining to enlighten the court in respect of his contentions he must be held to have waived them. (The State v. Everett, 62 Kan. 275.) And for the same reason he can not be permitted to question the sufficiency of the information by a motion for a new trial. (The State v. Ratner, 44 Kan. 429.)

¶2The appellant was adjudged to pay a fine of $300 and to be confined in the county jail for a term of three months from the 27th day of February, 1909. The section of the prohibitory liquor law (Gen. Stat. 1901, § 2457) under which he was convicted provides for imprisonment in the county jail “not less than thirty days nor more than ninety days.” Three months from the 27th day of February, 1909, would expire on the 27th day of May, 1909, and this would make á total of eighty-nine days. The appellant gets oif with one day less than if the court had followed the words of the statute.

¶3The judgment is affirmed.

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