Intent to injure or defraud, how charged.

545.170. It shall be sufficient in any indictment for anyoffense where an intent to injure, cheat or defraud shall benecessary to constitute the offense, to allege that the defendantdid the act with such intent, without alleging the intent of thedefendant to be to injure, cheat or defraud any particularperson; and on the trial of such offense, it shall not benecessary to prove an intent on the part of the defendant toinjure, cheat or defraud any particular person, but it shall besufficient to prove that the defendant did the act charged withan intent to injure, cheat or defraud.

(RSMo 1939 § 4862)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 4469; 1919 § 3710; 1909 § 4921

(1972) Although information charged that defendant tendered a no account check willfully, unlawfully and feloniously with intent to cheat and defraud a specific person, court held that it was sufficient to prove that defendant did the act charged with an intent to injure, cheat or defraud, and that such did not deny defendant due process of law. State v. Bywaters (Mo.), 476 S.W.2d 588.