State v. Amman

Jacob Amman was convicted in the Municipal Court of Cincinnati of violating Section 13059, General Code. Appeal is prosecuted direct to this court on questions of law.

The charge upon which he was tried, alleged that he did “unlawfully and purposely, then and there, accept a wager for money, on the speed and endurance of a beast, to wit: $2 to win and $1 to place on a certain race horse, to wit: ‘Brass Man,’ entered and scheduled to run in the 4th race at Rockingham race track, Salem, N. H., on October 15, 1945.”

It is argued that this section of the Code has no application to the offense…