State v. Carr

The State brought error because the court of criminal correction quashed an informa*608tion which charged defendants in the first count with maintaining &■ public nuisance, under section 3851, Revised Statutes 1889, to wit, a common gaming house, within the common law definition thereof; in the second count, with maintaining a disorderly house; and in the third count with maintaining a common gaming house under section 3811, Revised Statutes 1889. The St. Louis Court of Appeals, from whence the writ of error issued, certified the case to this court on the ground that a constitutional question was…