State v. McKinstry

"Worden, J.

This was an indictment, which, after the proper entitling, is as follows:

“ The grand jury for the county of Elkhart, upon their oaths, *466do charge and present that heretofore, to wit, at the September term, 1874, of the said Elkhart Circuit Court, a certain criminal prosecution was pending in due form of law against one Frank McKinstry, on an information based on an affidavit, charging, in substance, said McKinstry with having, in a public place, in the town of Elkhart, in said county, kept and maintained a public nuisance, to wit, a notorious house of ill-fame and prostitution, on…