Ex parte Ah Yem

By the Court :

It is alleged in the indictment that Ah Moon and Ah Tong, and other persons whose names were to the grand jurors unknown, ’ were “ dealing, playing, and carrying on a certain game ” for money, which game was a banking game ; and that the defendant “ did then and there play at said game, by wagering against the bank kept at said game a sum of money, * * * subject to the chances of said game.” The words of sec. 330 of the Penal Code—“ Every person who deals, plays, or carries on, opens or causes to be opened, or who conducts, either as owner or employee, whether for hire or not,…