Zerega v. United States

ROBB, Associate Justice.

Appellant, defendant below, was convicted in the Supreme Court of the District under an indictment containing nine counts.

Counts 1, 2, and 3 charged him, in varying forms, with unlawfully setting up and keeping a “gaming table” or “gambling device” adapted, devised, and designed “for the purpose of playing games of chance for money and property, to wit, games of betting and wagering money and property, upon the results of horse races.”

Count 4 charged that he knowingly permitted such gaming table to bo set up “for the purpose of betting and wagering money and property…