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545.270. An information filed in writing and as allowed by supreme court rule may be in the following form: The State of Missouri )

against ) In the .......... court.

A..... B..... . )

C M, prosecuting attorney within and for the county of ...., in the state of Missouri, informs the court that A B, on the .... day of ...., A.D. 19.., at the said county of ...., did then and there .... (here set out the offense as in an indictment).

C M, prosecuting attorney.

C M, prosecuting attorney (or E F, as the case may be), makes oath and says that the facts stated in the foregoing information are true, according to his best information and belief.

Subscribed and sworn to before me, this .... day of ...., A.D. 19.. .

G H (style of office).

(RSMo 1939 § 3896, A.L. 1997 S.B. 248)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 3506; 1919 § 3851; 1909 § 5059