Ketline v. State

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Beasley, Chief Justice.

The defendant was convicted of an offence against the act relating to lotteries.

At the trial the counsel of the defendant moved to quash the indictment for the reason that the date of the commission of the offence was' not stated therein, a blank space for the insertion of such time appearing on the face of the indictment, which, by oversight, had not been filled up. The motion was overruled, and the state was permitted to supply the omitted date by amendment.

The court is of opinion that the judicial course taken at the trial was…