Ligon v. City of Gadsden

The sole question in controversy on this appeal is the validity, vel non, of an ordinance, regularly enacted, of the city of Gadsden in the following language:

“Any person who plays in any game of chance- or hazard for money or other valuable things, or who in any way aids or abets, countenances or encourages such game, must, on conviction, be fined not less than one and not more than one hundred dollars.”

The decisions governing are in conflict, and more or less difficult to reconcile.

The ordinance here involved is manifestly inconsistent with the general laws of the state, and it was not the…