Sable v. State

Only the first and fourth headnotes will be enlarged upon. The defendant was tried and convicted on an accusation charging that he “did unlawfully keep, maintain, employ, and carry on a certain scheme or device, other than a lottery, for the hazarding of money, said scheme or device being known as and called ‘clearing house.’” The evidence disclosed that the defendant was occupying and in possession of a house in which was found the paraphernalia for the carrying on of the scheme of “clearing house,” and that he admitted that “that is all the stuff I used, and it is all my stuff.” One of the…