96 CASES IN THE SUPREME COURT Vol..XX.] The State vs. Stillwell. [JANUARY THE STATE VS. STILLWELL. The decision in the case of Stith vs. State, (13 Ark. 680), that the owner or occupant of a house cannot be indicted for permitting any of the• games mentioned in the 8th section of the act to be played in his house, approved. Appeal from, Monroe Circuit Court. Hon. JOHN J. CLENDENIN, Circuit Judge. JOHNSON, Attorney General, for the State. Mr. Chief Justice ENGLISH delivered the opinion of the Court. This was an . indictment in the Prairie Circuit Court; at Feb. ruary . term, 1857, as follows : "The grand jurors, etc., etc., .upon their oaths present that Sina Stillwell, late of, etc., on the 20th day of October, 1856, at, etc., did.unlawfully suffer a game of pocre; the same being a game at cards, to be carried on in her house, contrary to the form of the statute in such case made and provided, and against the peace and dignity of' the State," etc. The .Court quashed the indictment, on motion of the defendant, on the grounds that it charged no offence known to the law, etc., etc.; and the State appealed. The judgmeht of the Court below is in accordance with the decision of this Court in Stith vs. The State, 13 Ark. 680, and must be affirmed.
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