Dormer v. State

Indictment for keeping a gaming house. The indictment charged, in the same count, that the defendant kept, and suffered his house to be used, for gaming, &c. It is insisted that this rendered the indictment bad, on the ground that it charged two offences. We think but one offence was charged. State v. Slocum, 8 Blackf. 315, and cases cited. — 2 Russ. on Cr. 708. Had the allegation been in the disjunctive, that the defendant kept, or suffered, &c., it would probably have been bad for uncertainty. Arch. Cr. Pl. 43.

The indictment contained the names of certain persons who, it averred, had played…