Baker v. State

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dixon, J.

The plaintiff in error was convicted in the 'Camden Quarter- Sessions of being a common scold.

One ground on which she seeks a reversal of the judgment is because the indictment does not state the particular facts which make a common scold. Rut it is not necessary that the indictment should be so explicit. It is enough for it to aver that the accused is a common scold, to the common nuisance, &c. Where the offence consists, not of a single act, but of a habitual course of conduct, an indictment need not charge the details of that conduct, which…