State v. Jackson
Supreme Court of Missouri
Error to Cole Circuit Court. The court gave the following instructions at the instance of the State, to which defendant objected: 1. If the jury believe from the' evidence that the defendant played at a game commonly called pool, by means of a billiard table, and that at such game of pool so played money or property was bet, won or lost, such game so played would be in law a game of chance ; and if such game was so played upon a billiard table, as charged in the indictment,…
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Error to Cole Circuit Court. The court gave the following instructions at the instance of the State, to which defendant objected: 1. If the jury believe from the' evidence that the defendant played at a game commonly called pool, by means of a billiard table, and that at such game of pool so played money or property was bet, won or lost, such game so played would be in law a game of chance ; and if such game was so played upon a billiard table, as charged in the indictment, such billiard table did thereby become in law a gambling device. 2. If the jury further believe from the evidence that…
1Opinion of the CourtFagg, Judge
The plaintiff in error in this case w.as indicted at the February term of the Cole Circuit Court, under the 17th section of Art. VIII., R. C. 1855. The indictment contains but one count, and the offence is charged to be the betting of money “ upon a game of chance, which said game of chance was then and there played at, upon, and by means of a billiard *423table and game of pool, and which said billiard table and game of pool was .then and there a gambling device, adapted, devised and designed for the purpose of playing games of chance for money and property, contrary,” &o. Upon the trial of the…
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