State v. . Taylor
Supreme Court of North Carolina
IkdictmeNT for betting money on a game of chance, tried at June Term, 1892, of Richmond Superior Court, before Boykin, J. The jurors for the State upon their oaths present that John Taylor and Samuel Monroe, etc., with force and arms, etc., did unlawfully and wilfully play at a game of chance, to-wit, cards, at which money was bet, against the form of the statute, etc. • The defendants were found guilty, and appealed from the judgment pronounced against them.
1Opinion of the Court
Avjchy, J.:
The Courts take judicial notice of all matters occurring within their jurisdiction, which are of such general and public notoriety that every person of ordinary intelligence may be fairly presumed to know them. Brown v. Piper, 91 U. S., 37; 1 Greenleaf Ev., 6a; 12 Am. and Eng. Enc., 151; Deans v. Railroad, 107 N. C., 686. It is matter o.f universal knowledge that “a game of chance, to-wit, cards,” means one that is played with an ordinary deck of cards, and no citizen of North Carolina arraigned upon an indictment containing such a designation of the offence, would fail to…
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