Commonwealth v. Adams

Judge Stites

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is an appeal by the commonwealth from a judgment of the Circuit Court acquitting the appellee of a charge of permitting gaming upon premises *339under his control and in his occupation, the penalty for which offense is not less than two hundred nor more than five hundred dollars. The prosecution was begun since the Criminal Code went into effect. The judgment seems to have been rendered at the May term, 1855, of the Circuit Court, and exceptions •signed, and appeal prayed on the 19th May, 1855.

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