State v. Hope

Hope was indicted for “ unlawfully and feloniously keeping and maintaining, for the purpose of thereby gaining money and articles of value, certain gaming apparatus, known as billiard tables; and that the said James Hope did then, &c., suffer, allow, and procure Thomas Viewers, &c., to play the game of ‘billiards’ on the tables so kept, &c., then and there receiving money, to wit, the sum of twenty-live cents.per game, from the persons so playing as aforesaid, as a compensation for the use of said gaming apparatus, and for the privilege of playing the game aforesaid thereon, contrary,” &c.

Ther…