State v. Mabrey

— Following trial to the court without a jury defendant was convicted and fined $100 for keeping a gambling house in violation of section 726.1, Code, 1950, which provides, so far as material here: “If any person * * * permit * * * any person in any house, shop, or other place under his control * * * to play at cards, dice, faro, roulette, equality, punchboard, slot machine or other game for money or other thing, such offender shall be fined” etc.

The county attorney’s information under which defendant was tried charges he did on March 7, 1953, permit people to play at a game called bingo, for…