Commonwealth v. Stewart
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
THE questions involved in this case arose from an indictment against the defendant, for keeping a disorderly house. It charged him with “ keeping a disorderly and ill-go- “ verned house, and unlawfully causing and procuring for his “ own lucre and gain, certain persons, as well men as women, of “ evil name and fame, and of dishonest conversation, to fre- “ quent and come together in his said house, at unlawful times, as well in the night as in the day, permitting them “…
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THE questions involved in this case arose from an indictment against the defendant, for keeping a disorderly house. It charged him with “ keeping a disorderly and ill-go- “ verned house, and unlawfully causing and procuring for his “ own lucre and gain, certain persons, as well men as women, of “ evil name and fame, and of dishonest conversation, to fre- “ quent and come together in his said house, at unlawful times, as well in the night as in the day, permitting them “ there to be and remain, drinking, tippling, and misbehaving “ themselves to the great damage and common nuisance of all “…
1Opinion of the Court
Tilghman C. J.
The defendant’s counsel object to this indictment as being too general and not expressing any offence with sufficient certainty. [Here the Chief Justice stated the indictment]. The case of the King v. Higginson, 2 Burr. 1232, is very much like this. The only difference is, that instead of drinking, tippling, &c., Higginson is charged with procuring persons to come to his house, and permitting them to remain there, “ fighting of cocks, boxing, “playing at cudgels, and misbehaving themselves to the “ great damage and common nuisance, &c.” The same objection was made to that…
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