Wilson v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Hines :

The sixth and seventh sections of Chapter 47 of General Statutes denounce penalties against one setting up, or permitting to be set up, any faro bank, gaming table, machine or contrivance used in betting, or other game of chance, whereby money or other thing is or may be won or lost. It is not required that money should be won or lost to make the offense complete. 1 It is sufficient that money “may be won or lost.” Such is the case, at least so far as setting up a faro bank is concerned, which is specifically denounced by the statute as a contrivance for hefting and…