Squier v. State

The indictment in this case charged, that the appellant, on the 1st day of February, 1879, at Steuben county, Indiana, unlawfully suffered one Samuel Weicht, who was then and there a person under the age of twenty-one years to play a game of billiards with Freeborn Patterson, at and upon a billiard table, of which tho appellant then and there had the care, management and control, contrary to the form of the statute, etc.

Upon a plea of not guilty, and a trial by the court, the appellant was found guilty as charged in tho indictment ; and his motion for a new trial having been overruled, and…