531.040. When defendant shall appear--prosecutor to proceed, how.
When defendant shall appear--prosecutor to proceed, how.
531.040. Such person, against whom an information in thenature of a quo warranto shall be prosecuted, shall appear andanswer at the same term in which the same information shall befiled, unless the court shall give further time; and such personprosecuting such information shall proceed thereupon with themost convenient speed.
(RSMo 1939 § 1785)Prior revisions: 1929 § 1621; 1919 § 2069; 1909 § 2634