State v. Morgan.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT against G. T. Morgan, beard by Judge G. 8. Ferguson and a jury, at September Term, 1903, of tbe Superior Court of Wilson County. From a verdict of guilty and judgment thereon the defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtMontgomeey, J.
The bill of indictment in this ease contained two counts. In the first the defendant was charged with keeping and maintaining a gaming house — a nuisance at common law; and in the second with playing cards, a game of chance, for money, under chapter 29 of the Laws of 1891. Tbe counsel of defendant entered a motion to quasb tbe indictment upon two grounds: First, because two offenses “created by different statutes” and punished differently were joined; and second, for that tbe indictment did not charge that the games played were ones of chance, and that they were' played at a place, or tables,…
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