State v. Thomas

Indictment against the appellees in two counts. On motion of the defendants, both counts of the indictment were quashed. The prosecutor excepted, and appealed.

The question is upon the sufficiency of the indictment. The counts are so nearly alike, that we need examine- only one of them. The first alleges that the defendants, on the 1st day of September, 1874, at, etc., and on divers other days and times between that day and the day of the making of this presentment, did unlawfully and feloniously keep, and do yet unlawfully and feloniously keep, a certain gaming apparatus, commonly called a “…