State v. Herryford

At the March term, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-three, of the Circuit Court within and for the county of Chariton, the grand jury indicted James Herryford for keeping a gaming house. At the September term of said court following, the defendant appeared and filed his motion to quash the indictment.

This motion was sustained by the court; the indictment was quashed; the circuit attorney excepted to the opinion of the court, in sustaining the motion and quashing the indictment; tendered his bill of exceptions, and brings the case here by writ of error. The indictment charges that the…