Waddell v. Commonwealth
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 40-INDICTMENTS PPEALS PROM JEFFERSON CIRCUIT COURT. 1. The repeal of a criminal statute ends all prosecutions for its violation, unless there he a saving clause in the repealing statute, or a statute whereby it is provided that the repeal of a statute shall not affect any act done before the repeal took place.
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Case 40-INDICTMENTS PPEALS PROM JEFFERSON CIRCUIT COURT. 1. The repeal of a criminal statute ends all prosecutions for its violation, unless there he a saving clause in the repealing statute, or a statute whereby it is provided that the repeal of a statute shall not affect any act done before the repeal took place. (Sedgwick on Statutory Law, pages 129 and 130; Cooley on Constitutional Limitations, 4th edition, page 477; Bishop on Statutory Crimes, section 177; Rachel v. United States, 6 Cranch, 329; Bishop on Criminal Law, vol. 1, page 103; Commonwealth v. Welch, 2 Dana, 331; Commonwealth v.…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE LEWIS
DELIVERED THE OPINION OF THE COURT.
As tlie convictions in all these cases were under section 6, article 1, chapter 47, General Statutes, for the offense of setting up, exhibiting and keeping a faro *278bank, and the same questions are presented in each of them, they will be considered together.
The part of the section applicable is as follows: “Whoever shall set up, exhibit, or keep for himself or another, or shall procure to be set up, exhibited or kept, any faro bank, gaming table, machine or contrivance used in betting, or other game of chance, whereby money or other thing is or may…
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