State v. Scaggs
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Jefferson Circuit Court. I. The gist of the offence being described by the words of the statute, the indictment is therefore correct, as it follows the very language of the law. (See 1 R. C. 1855, p. 626-7; State v. Fulton et al., 19 Mo. 680 and following.) II.
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Appeal from Jefferson Circuit Court. I. The gist of the offence being described by the words of the statute, the indictment is therefore correct, as it follows the very language of the law. (See 1 R. C. 1855, p. 626-7; State v. Fulton et al., 19 Mo. 680 and following.) II. If the Legislature intended that there should be a betting, a playing, that these cards should be dealt out and that somebody should have bet, all of this is a using of the cards for the purpose of gaming, and the words used are properly employed in the indictment without any further description of the manner in which the…
1Opinion of the CourtBay, Judge
At the June term, 1860, of the Jefferson Circuit Court the defendant was indicted for permitting a gambling device to be used for the purpose of gaming in a house occupied by him.
The indictment is founded on the 18th section of article 8 of our statute relating to crimes and punishments, and is as follows:
“ The grand jurors of the State-of Missouri now here in court duly empanelled, sworn and charged to inquire within and for the body of the county of Jefferson, upon their oaths present, that Abraham Seaggs, late of said county, on the sixteenth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty, with…
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