State v. Lee
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. -^-Eon. Chas. C. Allen, Judge. (1) The court erred in overruling appellant’s demurrer to the indictment. The second count charged the defendants with setting up and keeping a certain table commonly called a crap table, etc., but failed to aver how or in what manner it was used.
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Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. -^-Eon. Chas. C. Allen, Judge. (1) The court erred in overruling appellant’s demurrer to the indictment. The second count charged the defendants with setting up and keeping a certain table commonly called a crap table, etc., but failed to aver how or in what manner it was used. The approved indictments in the following cases, in each instance, alleged that the table in question was one “upon which dice were used,” an averment omitted from this count, hence it was insufficient. State v. Eosenblatt, 185 Mo. 114; State v. Mathis, 206 Mo. 604; State v.…
1Opinion of the Court
GANTT, P. J.'
On April 29, 1908', the grand jury for the city of St. Louis returned an indictment in two counts against the defendant. In the first count he is charged with having set up and kept gambling devices, to-wit, one poker table and one crap table, on December 20, 1907, at numbers 410; 411 and 412 North Levee street in the city of St. Louis, and the second count was in these words: ‘ ‘ and the grand jurors aforesaid, upon their oath further present, that William Lee and Sam Favors on the twentieth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and seven, and on divers other days and…
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