State v. . Miller
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This was an INDICTMENT, tried before Ciarle, Judge, at January Criminal Term, 1886, of the Superior Court of Wake county. The indictment against the defendant consists of five counts, setting out the offence in different forms, to the fourth of which, when arraigned, he pleaded guilty, and a nol pros, was entered as to the others.
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This was an INDICTMENT, tried before Ciarle, Judge, at January Criminal Term, 1886, of the Superior Court of Wake county. The indictment against the defendant consists of five counts, setting out the offence in different forms, to the fourth of which, when arraigned, he pleaded guilty, and a nol pros, was entered as to the others. That count is drawn under §1043 of The Code, which isas follows: “If any keeper of an ordinary, or house of entertainment, or of a house wherein liquors are retailed, shall knowingly suffer any game at which money, or property, or any thing of value is bet, whether…
1Opinion of the Court
Smith, C. J.,
(after stating the facts). We reproduce, as due to the presiding Judge, so much of what he said, as gives his reasons for fixing the fine at the sum mentioned. “ It appears,” he says, “that the defendant keeps, and has kept for years, a gambling-house in the city of Raleigh. In defiance, and with a profound contempt of the law, he has kept it open, next door to the principal hotel in the capital of the State, and immediately opposite to the United States Court House and Post Office, and under the very shadow of this Court House. That his contempt and defiance of law might be…
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