State v. Albertson

Indictment for winning thirty-sfeven and a-half cents, at a certain game.with cards. Indictment quashed on motion by the Circuit Court. Writ of error by the state.'

The only question in the case is, whether the offence is indictable in the Circuit Court, or falls exclusively within the jurisdiction of a justice of the peace.

The 74th sec. of the act respecting crimes and punishments states, that “in all offences in this act contained,, to which the affixed penalty does not exceed three dollars, exclusive jurisdiction is given to justices of the peace of the proper county.” R. C. 1824, p. 150…