Hodges v. State

E. H., alias Charlie, Hodges was convicted under an accusation charging him with keeping, maintaining, and operating a lottery known as the number game. The certiorari was overruled and the defendant excepted.

The defendant demurred to the accusation (a) for the reasons that (1), the same fails to charge with any degree of certainty as to how and in what manner he kept, operated, maintained, or carried on the alleged lottery, known as the number game; (2), that the same is insufficient to constitute a legal and valid accusation for the offenses purported; (3), that the same is so indefinite…