Vicaro v. Commonwealth

Judge Marshall

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

Vicaro was indicted, in the Louisville City Court, for suffering “unlawful games at Poker, Brag, Whist, Faro,” &c. &c. in a house of which he was superintendent, in the City of Louisville, “ at which unlawful games, money, bank bills, and property, were lost and won.” Upon his plea of not guilty, a verdict and judgment were rendered against him for two hundred dollars. To reverse which, he prosecutes a writ of error.

Various objections were taken to the proceedings in the Court below, and several questions are presented, by the assignment of…