Legal Opinion

State v. Jordan

Supreme Court of Iowa

Decided September 25, 1874PublishedCited by 10 opinions

Appeal from Wapello District Court. TnE defendant was indicted for keeping a nuisance; he pleaded guilty and was fined five hundred dollars, and ordered confined at hard labor until said fine and costs are paid, said labor to be performed in or out of jail under the direction of the sheriff of said eounty. The defendant appeals.

1Opinion of the CourtCole, J.

I. The indictment is as follows: “The grand jury of the county of Wapello, in the name and by the authority of the State of Iowa, accuse Kinsey Jordan of the crime of nuisance, committed as follows: The said defendant *388in the State of Iowa, on the first day of May, A. D., 1813, in the county aforesaid, did then and there keep a certain house in which he then and there kept for sale and sold intoxicating liquors.”

t okimin-ai, mmt/nvds-’ anee. It was held by this court in The State v. Collins, 11 Iowa, 141, that an indictment for nuisance is good, if it contains an allegation of.“keeping…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. State v. BenekeSupreme Court of Iowa · 1859
  2. State v. AllenSupreme Court of Iowa · 1871
  3. State v. CollinsSupreme Court of Iowa · 1860
  4. Kuhn v. MyersSupreme Court of Iowa · 1873
  5. State v. Van VleetSupreme Court of Iowa · 1867

3Cited by10 opinions

  1. De Graff v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1909
  2. Fletcher v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1909
  3. Albertson v. KriechbaumSupreme Court of Iowa · 1884
  4. State v. MeierSupreme Court of Iowa · 1895
  5. Abrams v. SandholmSupreme Court of Iowa · 1903

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