State v. Harbourne
Supreme Court of Connecticut
. Information for keeping a place in winch the business of transmitting money for betting purposes was permitted and carried on, and for being unlawfully concerned in such business, brought to the City Court of Waterbury and thence, by defendant’s appeal, to the District Court of Waterbury and tried to the jury before Cowell, J.; verdict .and judgment of guilty, and appeal by the accused for alleged errors in the charge of the court.
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. Information for keeping a place in winch the business of transmitting money for betting purposes was permitted and carried on, and for being unlawfully concerned in such business, brought to the City Court of Waterbury and thence, by defendant’s appeal, to the District Court of Waterbury and tried to the jury before Cowell, J.; verdict .and judgment of guilty, and appeal by the accused for alleged errors in the charge of the court. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtHall, J.
The Act creating the offenses charged, is directed against that form of gambling known as pool selling, including bets or wagers on the result of any trial of speed, skill or endurance (Public Acts of 1893, p. 240). It prohibits : 1. Keeping any place with apparatus or devices for the purpose of carrying on such gambling. 2. Keeping any place where pool selling of any kind, either directly or indirectly is permitted or carried on. 3. Keeping any place in which the business of transmitting money to any race track or other place there to be placed or bet on any horse-race, etc., whether within…
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