Jacobs v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Garland Circuit Court; Calvin T. Gotham, Judge; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. Appellant was convicted on five separate indictments for exhibiting certain gambling devices, each indictment being for the exhibition of a different one.
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Appeal from Garland Circuit Court; Calvin T. Gotham, Judge; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. Appellant was convicted on five separate indictments for exhibiting certain gambling devices, each indictment being for the exhibition of a different one. One indictment charged him with exhibiting a gambling device, commonly called “klondike;” another with exhibiting a gambling device, commonly called a “crap table;” ■ another with exhibiting a gambling device commonly called “roulette;” the fourth with exhibiting a gambling device commonly called “faro bank;” and the fifth charged him with exhibiting a…
1Opinion of the Court
Kirby, J.,
(after stating the facts). Each of the indictments charges appellant with keeping- and exhibiting a certain gambling device, naming it, in violation of section 1732 of Kirby’s Digest, which reads as follows:
“ Every person who shall set up, keep or exhibit any gaming table or gambling device, commonly called A. B. C., O. E., roulette, rouge et noir, or any faro bank, or any other gaming table or gambling device, or bank of the like or similar kind, or of any other description, although not herein named, be the name or denomination what it may, adapted, devised or designed for the…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Grayson v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1909
- State v. NunnellySupreme Court of Arkansas · 1884
- Emerson v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1884
- Dodge v. ThomasonSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1910
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