Missouri Revised Statutes













Chapter 545

Proceedings Before Trial

←545.940

Section 545.010.1

545.015→

August 28, 2015

Felonies and misdemeanors may be prosecuted by indictment or information, exceptions.

545.010. All felonies shall be prosecuted by indictment or information,

except in cases arising in the land, air or naval forces, or in the militia

as provided in sections 40.005 to 40.490; and all misdemeanors shall be

prosecuted by indictment or by information in the courts having jurisdiction

thereof. But that mode of procedure which shall be first instituted by the

filing of the indictment or information for any offense shall be pursued to

the exclusion of the other, so long as the same shall be pending and

undetermined; and the court in which the prosecution shall be first commenced

by the filing therein of the indictment or information, and the issuing of a

warrant thereon, shall retain jurisdiction and control of the cause to the

exclusion of any other court so long as the same shall be pending and

undisposed of; provided, that misdemeanors for violation of general laws of

this state shall in no case be prosecuted in any police or recorder's court,

any provision of any special city charter to the contrary notwithstanding;

provided, that the last mentioned provision of this section shall only apply

to cities having a population of not less than fifty thousand and not

exceeding three hundred thousand inhabitants.



(RSMo 1939 § 3892, A.L. 1984 H.B. 1035)



Prior revisions: 1929 § 3502; 1919 § 3847; 1909 § 5055



CROSS REFERENCES:



Liquor laws, indictment for violation to contain what, 311.770



Preliminary examination required, when, 544.250



Prosecutions by indictment or information, Const. Art. I § 17







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