Gideon v. State

RICE, Judge.

As said by Judge Samford for this court in the opinion in the case of Masters v. State, 18 Ala.App. 614, 94 So. 249, certiorari denied Ex parte Masters, 208 Ala. 699, 94 So. 922: “The general rule is that when a statute creates a new offense, unknown to the common law, and describes its constituents, the offense may be charged in the statutory language.”

The indictment here follows, literally, so far as we can see, subsection (a) of section 1 of the act of the Legislature approved July 25, 1931, Gen. Acts Ala.1931, p. 806, in describing the gambling device the possession óf which…