Bloomhuff v. State

This was a prosecution for a public nuisance. The indictment was against the plaintiff in error and two other persons, charging them with keeping, in a public place, “a certain common, ill-governed, and disorderly room,” in which, for lucre, they procured and suffered disorderly persons to meet, by night and by day, and to remain there “drinking, tippling, cursing, swearing, quarrelling, making great noises, rolling bowls in and at a game commonly called ten pins,” &c. A motion to quash the indictment was overruled. The defendants pleaded not guilty. The jury found the plaintiff in error…