Carpenter v. State

This was a prosecution for keeping a house to be used for gaming. Motion to quash overruled; trial and conviction.

It is urged that the information is bad for two reasons—

1. Because it does not give the names of the persons who gamed.

This was not necessary under the peculiar form of the information. Sowle v. The State, 11 Ind. R. 493.— Winemiller v. The State, id. 516.

2. There was no affidavit, other than a general one, attached to the information, verifying the truth thereof. Is *110this sufficient, or ought an affidavit, separate from the inr formation, to be first filed, to base such…