Sowle v. State

This was a prosecution by information against the appellant, for suffering his building, known as his “grocery,” to be used for gaming. Trial, conviction, and judgment over a motion in arrest.

The objection to the information is, that it does not set forth the names of the persons who were suffered to gamble in the grocery, nor aver their names to be unknown, nor show any other excuse for not setting them forth.

It is settled that an information must, contain all the substantial requisites of an indictment at common law. Mount v. The State, 7 Ind. R. 654.

Such defect as is complained of was held…