Legal Opinion
Opinion Number
Louisiana Attorney General Reports
Decided June 29, 1994Published
1Opinion of the Court
Dear Mr. Crager:
This office is in receipt of your opinion request date February 22, 1993.
Your questions as I understand them are whether card games, including Black Jack, conducted in lounges and truck stops are legal?
La. R.S. 14:90 A. provides:
A. (1)(a) Gambling is the intentional conducting, or directly assisting in the conducting, as a business, of any game, contest, lottery, or contrivance whereby a person risks the loss of anything of value in order to realize a profit.(b) Whoever commits the crime of gambling shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned for not more…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Gandolfo v. Louisiana State Racing CommissionSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1954
- State ex rel. Corbello v. BondSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1983
- State v. YoungLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1984
- State v. SongyLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1991