Commonwealth v. Monarch

This was an indictment against appellee for “setting up and keeping a keno-table, committed as follows: that he did on-day of-, 1868,-and on divers days since, in the county aforesaid, procure to be set up and to be kept a keno-table in a house under his control and in his occupation; . . it being a contrivance for betting, at which and whereby money and property was bet, won, and lost.”

It is not averred that this is a contrivance ordinarily used for gaming; nor that it was indeed a banking game kept for the ordinary purpose of betting, winning, and losing. This kind of table or contrivance…