State v. Seeger

Citations

• 65 Kan. 711
• 70 P. 599
• 1902 Kan. LEXIS 119

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>Criminal Procedure — Insufficient Complaint — Use of Conjunctions. Where a statute creating an offense provides that such offense maybe committed by the doing of one thing or of another, the disjunctive not being used to indicate that the terms joined thereby were synonymous, a complaint charging such offense should use the copulative conjunction “and” rather than the disjunctive “or.”</p>