State v. Saia

HAWTHORNE, Justice.

John Saia, defendant-appellant, charged in a bill of information with the crime of gambling as defined and denounced by Article 90 of the Louisiana Criminal Code, Act No. 43 of 1942, has appealed to this court from his conviction and sentence to pay a fine of $350 or to serve 30 days in ihe parish prison.

The offense is charged in the bill of information in the following language, to-wit:

“* * * that one JOHN SAIA late of the Parish of Orleans, on the thirtieth day ■of January in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and forty-seven with force and arms in the Parish…