State v. Markham

The defendant’s counsel assign as error several rulings of the District Judge, to which bills of exception have been taken.

I. There was filed a motion to quash, upon the ground that the indictment was void for duplicity.

The offence charged is, that the defendant “ did keep a banking-game commonly called faro, and a banking-house, at which money, and various things representing money, (and commonly called chips or checks,) and other articles of value, were bet and hazarded ; and the said James Markham, did then aud there aid and assist in keeping said banking-game and banking-house,” &c.

This…