Sassano v. State

DAVIDSON, Judge.

This is a conviction for engaging in the business of bookmaking, with a punishment assessed at five years in the penitentiary.

The crime of bookmaking is denounced in Sec. 1, of Art. 652a, Vernon’s P.C., while the crime of engaging in the business of bookkmaking is denounced in See. 2 of said article.

The indictment upon which this conviction was predicated charges that appellant, on or about the 7th day of June, 1955, “was then and there engaged in the business of bookmaking.”

It is insisted that such allegation is vague, uncertain, and indefinite, and fails to apprize appellant…