Armstrong v. State

Indictment against Armstrong. Two counts. One count charges the defendant with keeping a room to be used and occupied for gambling. The other, for renting a *248room to another person to be used and occupied for that purpose< Verdict and judgment for the state.

The statute on the subject of this indictment is, that if any person shall keep a room, &c., to be used and occupied for gambling, or shall rent to another a room for that object, he shall be fined, &c.

The Court charged the jury, “That if it was proved that the defendant’ had, permitted a roulette to be kept and gambled upon at any one time…