Commonwealth v. Hollands

Wickersham, J.,

— The indictment charges that the defendant, “On the 28th day of May, 1923, ... in a certain house, unlawfully, wilfully and maliciously did set up and establish, and cause to be set up and established, a certain game and device of address and hazard, with cards, dice, . . . and other instruments, ... at and upon which money and other valuable things were then and there unlawfully designated to be, and actually were, played for, staked and betted upon.”

It also contained four other counts, charging the same offence as having been committed in the different manners set forth and…