City of Everett v. Simmons

Appellant was convicted of violating the provisions of an ordinance of the city of Everett proscribing gambling games. The charging part of the complaint is as follows: That appellant

“did conduct, deal, play, and carry on a certain game of chance, to wit: poker, the same having been played and operated for checks and chips, then and there being representative of value, to wit: representatives of money, whereby money and other things of value were won and lost, and that said game was played, carried on and conducted in that certain building known as Simmons’ Pool Room, &c &c contrary to the…