State v. Jacobs

The defendants were charged with keeping a banking house and banking game in violation of Act No. 12 of 1870. Defendant Jacobs, whose appeal this is, pleaded not guilty to the charge, with reservation of the right to withdraw the plea. Thereafter he filed a motion to quash the bill of information. After the overruling of the motion to quash, Jacobs pleaded guilty. He then filed a motion in arrest of judgment, based upon the same ground as was the motion .to quash, namely, that Act No. 12 of 1870, under which the bill of information was filed, was repealed by articles 341, 582, and 583 of the…