Effective - 28 Aug 1939
546.090. Court may amend record, when — clerk to certify corrections. — Upon the trial of any indictment or information the court may at any stage of the proceeding, in furtherance of justice, amend or supply any pleading, writ, process, entry, return or other proceedings; and the court in which the indictment was found, or the information filed, or in which the trial is had, may at any time before final disposition of the cause, either in such court or the court to which the same may have been appealed, and, whether at the same or different term of court, amend or supply any record in accordance with the fact. If the same be pending on appeal at the time any such record is amended or supplied, the part thereof so amended or supplied shall be immediately certified to the appellate court by the clerk of such trial court.
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(RSMo 1939 § 3954)
Prior revision: 1929 § 3565
(1953) Reference in argument by state's attorney to defendant as "spook" and "burglar" held not error where court admonished jury that there was no justification for the statement and directed that it be stricken and disregarded entirely. State v. Rousslang (Mo.), 258 S.W.2d 627.
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XXXVII - Criminal Procedure
Chapter 546 - Trials, Judgments and Executions in Criminal Cases
Section 546.010 - Proceedings upon information, how conducted.
Section 546.020 - Plea of not guilty, not formally tendered.
Section 546.030 - Prisoner must be present in court, when.
Section 546.040 - Issues of fact to be tried by jury.
Section 546.050 - Misdemeanors may be tried by court.
Section 546.060 - Practice in civil case to apply, when.
Section 546.070 - Order of trial — instructions, requirements.
Section 546.080 - Variance between charge and proof.
Section 546.090 - Court may amend record, when — clerk to certify corrections.
Section 546.095 - Offense not cognizable before associate circuit judge — procedure.
Section 546.250 - Person injured may testify.
Section 546.263 - Domestic assault, victim may testify by video conference — local court rules.
Section 546.270 - Failure to testify not to prejudice defendant.
Section 546.280 - Defendant may be discharged to testify for state.
Section 546.300 - Existence of corporation, how proved.
Section 546.360 - Defense of former jeopardy may be proved, when.
Section 546.370 - Exceptions may be taken as in civil cases.
Section 546.380 - Court not to charge, but may instruct jury.
Section 546.390 - Verdict of jury, how rendered.
Section 546.400 - Verdict must show degree of guilt.
Section 546.540 - Confinement of insane persons, costs paid, how.
Section 546.550 - Presence of prisoner at rendition of judgment.
Section 546.560 - Presence of prisoner in court.
Section 546.570 - Hearing before sentence.
Section 546.580 - Section 546.570 deemed directory, when.
Section 546.590 - Judgment to be entered by clerk.
Section 546.600 - Copy of judgment of conviction to sheriff.
Section 546.610 - Copy of commitment to sheriff — prisoner, how and where delivered.
Section 546.620 - Power of sheriff to summon aid.
Section 546.650 - Court may require security to keep the peace.
Section 546.660 - Section 546.650 construed.
Section 546.670 - Recognizance, when broken.
Section 546.680 - Capital cases, duty of court.
Section 546.690 - Statement of conviction and judgment to governor.
Section 546.700 - Sentence not executed, procedure.
Section 546.730 - Place of executing judgment of death, duties of director.
Section 546.740 - Execution, witnesses.
Section 546.750 - Warrant of execution, how returned.
Section 546.800 - Pregnancy of female convict under death sentence — proceedings.
Section 546.810 - If found pregnant — sentence suspended.
Section 546.820 - Execution ordered when causes for suspension cease.
Section 546.860 - All property bound for fine and costs.
Section 546.870 - Executions shall issue, when.
Section 546.880 - May be consigned to workhouse, when.
Section 546.881 - St. Louis City workhouse, commitment.
Section 546.890 - Persons committed to workhouse imprisoned for full term.