Donovan v. State

— Appellant was convicted in the city court of the city of Indianapolis- of the offense of keeping a gaming house. He appealed to the criminal court and was again convicted. From the latter judgment he prosecutes this appeal, and the only error well assigned is that the court erred in overruling his motion for a new trial. The causes for a new trial which are urged as grounds of error requiring a reversal involve charges of the admission of improper evidence and the giving by the court of an instruction to the jury claimed to be erroneous and harmful.

The Attorney-General meets these…