Case ID: la-ann_34/html/0261-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Levy, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 8378.
    The State of Louisiana vs. Joseph George.
    Though the indictment in this case is not in the exact words of the statute under which it is framed, viz: Section .911 of the Revised Statutes, (providing for the punishment of persons keeping gambling houses) yet the said indictment charges the offense in equivalent words and is valid.
    Article 172 of the Constitution of 1879 did not repeal said Section 911 of the Revised Statutes.
    The grand jury is. presumed in this case to have been regularly organized.
    While, perhaps, the ownership of the house in which the gambling was going on, was not essential to establish the guilt of the accused, proof of such ownership, even if surplusage, did not vitiate the proceedings.
    APPEAL from the Fourteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Calcasieu. Bead, J.
    
      A. J. Kearney, District Attorney, for the State, Appellee.
    
      F. A. Gallangher, for Defendant and Appellant.
   The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Levy, J.