Mo. Pac. R'y Co. v. Curtis

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• holding that a county could contract with a private corporation to provide and maintain a jail since there was no express or implied limitation on its power to provide and maintain a jail elsewhere in the statutes
• indicating knowing conduct sufficient for escape in the second degree

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