Engle v. State of Arizona

J. F. Engle and Jack Showed, hereinafter called defendants, were informed against by the county attorney of Maricopa county for the crime of maintaining a public nuisance. The charging part of the information, so far as material to the determination of this case, reads as follows:

“The said J. F. Engle and Jack Showed on or about the 28th day of June, 1938, and before the filing of this information at and in the County, of Maricopa, State of Arizona, did then and there, wilfully, unlawfully and indecently keep and maintain a public nuisance, a misdemeanor, by then and there, in and about those…