Commonwealth v. Theatre Advertising Co.

These are two complaints charging the defendants with keeping and maintaining a gaming nuisance in the city of Boston, i.e., premises “resorted to for illegal gaming.” The complaints were tried to a jury and resulted in verdicts of guilty as to both defendants. Upon motions the complaints were consolidated for the purpose of filing and presenting the exceptions of the defendants to the Supreme Judicial Court.

*407There was evidence that the defendants conducted in Keith’s old theatre on Washington Street, in Boston, a game, known as “Beano,” in the following manner. Along one side of the lobby of…