State v. Morano

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Heher. J.

The judgment is affirmed, for the reasons expressed in the opinion of Mr. Justice Parker for the Supreme Court. But, in view of the insistence of plaintiffs in error on the oral argument and in the brief that their fundamental rights have been invaded, we shall treat the particular points in some detail.

It is urged that the count of the indictment upon which the judgment was entered, although it charges that the accused “wilfully and unlawfully did make and take what is commonly known as a book, upon the running of horses, mares and geldings,”…