Gault v. State

The indictment charged that the appellant “did then and there unlawfully and knowingly keep, and was then and there interested in ‘keeping, certain premises, a building, room and place, * * * ” to be used for the purpose of manufacturing intoxicating liquor.

The sufficiency of the indictment is challenged upon the ground that it is indefinite in failing to advise whether it was intended to prove that the premises kept was a building, room, or other kind of place. The indictment used the language of the statute contained in article 58814oo, Vernon’s Ann. Pen. Code Supp. 1922.

We understand it to…