State v. Moseley
Supreme Court of Alabama
On points referred to this Court from the Criminal Court of Mobile. Before the Hon. John E. Jones. The defendant was indicted for betting at a certain gaming table commonly called pool, which said table was then and there kept, exhibited, and carried on for gaming.
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On points referred to this Court from the Criminal Court of Mobile. Before the Hon. John E. Jones. The defendant was indicted for betting at a certain gaming table commonly called pool, which said table was then and there kept, exhibited, and carried on for gaming. It was proved on the trial, that the game of pool was played at a table, in.all respects like a billiard table without pockets, commonly called a pool table.' That the players put in each a certain sum, and that the first one of the players, who by skill or chance, made thirty-one points, neither more or less, entitled himself to…
1Opinion of the CourtChilton, J.
As our attention has been called to the statutes, with a view to ascertain whether a billiard, or pool table, kept for gaining, does not come within the prohibition of the law, we deem it proper to give this case a more extended investigation, than at first we thought necessary.
By the 12th section of the 6th chapter of the penal code, (Clay's Dig. 433,) it is enacted, “ If auy person shall hereafter be guilty of keeping, or exhibiting any gaming table, called ABC, or E O, or roulette, or rowley powley, ox rouge et noir, or thimbles, sometimes called three ticket lottery, or chuckerluck, or…
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