State v. Sweet

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Reed, J.

The defendant was convicted of keeping a disorderly house in the township of Perth Amboy. The disorder charged in the indictment was that “men and women of evil fame the defendant did cause to frequent his house there to be and remain drinking, tippling, fighting, cursing, swearing, quarrelling, whoring and otherwise misbehaving themselves.” It was not charged that gaming was one of the elements of disorder.

One of the matters testified to by the state’s witnesses was the habit of playing craps in defendant’s house by those who frequented the…