Commonwealth v. Haines

Citations

• 55 Pa. Super. 359
• 1913 Pa. Super. LEXIS 367

Syllabus

<p>Criminal law — Indictment—Information—Keeping disorderly house— Nuisance.</p> <p>An information averring that the defendant “did keep and maintain and does now keep a certain common, ill governed and disorderly house and place to the encouragement of idleness, gaming, drinking and other misbehavior to the community and disturbance of the good citizens of this commonwealth, tesiding and being in the neighborhood,” is sufficient to support an indictment charging the defendant, in the precise language of the forty-second section of the Act of March 31,1860, P. L. 382, with keeping a disorderly house “to the common nuisance and disturbance of the neighborhood.” In such a case it is immaterial that the house is not charged to be a common nuisance in the information.</p>