Missouri Revised Statutes
Chapter 545 - Proceedings Before Trial
Section 545.160 - Venue, how stated.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939
545.160. Venue, how stated. — It shall not be necessary to state any venue in the body of any indictment or information; but the county or other jurisdiction named in the margin thereof shall be taken to be the venue for all the facts stated in the body of the same.
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(RSMo 1939 § 3944)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 3555; 1919 § 3900; 1909 § 5107

Structure Missouri Revised Statutes

Missouri Revised Statutes

Title XXXVII - Criminal Procedure

Chapter 545 - Proceedings Before Trial

Section 545.010 - Felonies and misdemeanors may be prosecuted by indictment or information, exceptions.

Section 545.015 - Definitions.

Section 545.020 - Recovery of fine or forfeiture, how.

Section 545.030 - Indictments and informations, when valid.

Section 545.040 - Indictments signed by whom.

Section 545.050 - Name of prosecutor on indictment, when.

Section 545.060 - Indictment to have name of prosecutor — by whom made — effect of failure.

Section 545.070 - Names of witnesses must be affixed to indictment.

Section 545.080 - Indictments, when not to be made public.

Section 545.090 - Judges and others forbidden to disclose finding of indictment.

Section 545.100 - Officer may make disclosure, when.

Section 545.110 - Second indictment suspends first, when.

Section 545.130 - Different degrees of same offense may be incorporated.

Section 545.140 - Two or more persons and offenses may be charged in same indictment, when — separate counts for each offense — all defendants need not be joined in each count — separate trials, when — substantial prejudice, defined.

Section 545.150 - Indictments in relation to property belonging to several owners.

Section 545.160 - Venue, how stated.

Section 545.170 - Intent to injure or defraud, how charged.

Section 545.180 - Certain indictments, what designation sufficient.

Section 545.190 - Identification of counterfeiting equipment.

Section 545.200 - Instruments, how described.

Section 545.210 - Money or note, how described.

Section 545.220 - Demurrer or motion to quash indictment must specify grounds.

Section 545.230 - Indictment by wrong name.

Section 545.240 - Informations — how filed, verified.

Section 545.250 - Who may make affidavit.

Section 545.260 - Lost affidavit, how replaced.

Section 545.270 - Form of information.

Section 545.280 - Prosecuting witness, who deemed.

Section 545.290 - Statute of jeofails applicable to proceedings by information.

Section 545.300 - Informations — amendment — substitution for defective indictment.

Section 545.310 - Issuance of warrant — recognizance after arrest.

Section 545.320 - Issuance of subpoenas for state witnesses.

Section 545.330 - Issuance of subpoenas for defense witnesses.

Section 545.340 - Disobedience to subpoena, how punished.

Section 545.350 - Tender of fees not necessary.

Section 545.360 - Law governing witnesses in civil cases to apply.

Section 545.370 - Witness to attend until end of case — consequences of failure to so attend.

Section 545.380 - Defense witnesses — commission to take deposition, when.

Section 545.390 - Depositions to be taken and read as in civil cases.

Section 545.400 - Conditional examination of witnesses.

Section 545.410 - Duty of prosecuting attorney in taking depositions.

Section 545.415 - Criminal cases, prosecutors and circuit attorneys may take depositions of any person, procedure — prisoners deposed, where.

Section 545.420 - Indictment against judge to be removed to another circuit.

Section 545.430 - Change of venue may be granted defendant.

Section 545.440 - Change of venue in counties where court held at more than one place.

Section 545.450 - When case may be removed to another circuit.

Section 545.460 - Removal to be made on application of defendant.

Section 545.470 - Application for change of venue, when made.

Section 545.473 - Cole County, change of venue, procedure.

Section 545.480 - Additional affidavit, when made.

Section 545.490 - Petition for change of venue must be proved and may be rebutted.

Section 545.500 - Order for removal shall specify what.

Section 545.510 - Order for removal, where entered.

Section 545.520 - Recognizance to be given.

Section 545.530 - Who may take recognizance.

Section 545.540 - Order for removal void, unless bail given.

Section 545.550 - Defendant in custody, to be removed, when — which county jail to house defendant.

Section 545.560 - Duty of sheriff.

Section 545.570 - In case of removal, transcript of record to be made.

Section 545.580 - Transcript to be filed.

Section 545.590 - Lost transcript may be replaced.

Section 545.600 - Witnesses to attend trial in cases of removal.

Section 545.610 - In case of removal, when notice to be given.

Section 545.620 - Costs, how taxed and paid.

Section 545.630 - Clerk, when liable to civil action.

Section 545.640 - Change of venue for one not to affect other defendants.

Section 545.650 - Change of venue and disqualification of judges in multiple-judge circuits.

Section 545.660 - When judge deemed incompetent to try case.

Section 545.690 - Another circuit judge may sit, when.

Section 545.700 - Adjourned term held, when.

Section 545.710 - Continuances, when and how granted.

Section 545.720 - Contents of affidavit.

Section 545.730 - Continuances on behalf of state, how obtained.

Section 545.740 - Witnesses to enter into recognizance, when.

Section 545.780 - Speedy trial, when — what constitutes — failure to comply not grounds for dismissal, exception.

Section 545.790 - Cause continued, when.

Section 545.800 - Copy of indictment or information furnished accused on request.

Section 545.810 - Defendant granted reasonable time to plead.

Section 545.820 - Court shall assign prisoner counsel, when.

Section 545.830 - Dilatory pleas, when entertained.

Section 545.840 - Matters pleaded occurring in another county.

Section 545.850 - Special term of court.

Section 545.860 - If prisoner bailed, no special term.

Section 545.870 - Prosecuting attorney to be notified, when.

Section 545.880 - Joint trials, when — separate trials for joint defendants, when — probability of prejudice exists, when.

Section 545.885 - Joint trials for persons jointly charged — exceptions — substantial prejudice defined.

Section 545.890 - Defendant imprisoned — discharge if not tried before end of second term.

Section 545.900 - Defendant on bail — discharged if not tried before end of third term.

Section 545.910 - When state not entitled to further continuance.

Section 545.920 - When defendant not entitled to discharge.

Section 545.930 - Endorsement or signature of pleadings in criminal cases.

Section 545.940 - Defendant may be tested for various serious infectious or communicable diseases, when.

Section 545.950 - Child victim of sexual offense, video and aural recordings and photographs, defendant not to copy or distribute without court order.