State v. Dole

Indictment for'suffering gaming in a licensed grocery. The' indictment was quashed by the Circuit Court, because the particular game suffered and permitted to be played in the .grocery,; was not stated. •

The penalties imposed, by the 65th section of the act relative to crimes and punishments, upon a tavern-keeper, or retailer .of spirituous liquors, &c., are-incurred by suffering a game to be played by' which money, or any article of value, is lost or won, and not by suffering a particular game to be played, since all games for such purposes appear to be equally prohibited. -In the cases of…