State v. Awde

The information charged the defendant with the crime of being a common gambler, in that the defendant,

“ . . . as the owner and manager thereof . . . did wilfully, unlawfully and feloniously, open, conduct, carry on and operate a gambling game commonly known as craps, the same being played and operated with dice and the same being a game of chance whereby money is bet, wagered and hazarded upon a chance and uncertain and contingent event, and said gambling game was then and there played in a certain building known as the Olympic Tavern, in said county and state, contrary to the form of the…