State v. Vogel

The appellant was convicted of grand larceny, in that, by trick, device, and bunco game, he took $1,540 from Robert Butkovich.

The prosecuting witness testified that in Portland, Oregon, he met a man by the name of Ramsey, who told him that he made his living* by playing* poker and needed money to play cards with a man whom he had met, and who proved to be the appellant, Vogel. Butkovich lent Ramsey six hundred dollars with which to play poker with Vogel. Ramsey lost the money. The three men came to Seattle February 27, 1934, taking a room at a hotel, where they played poker. On the morning*…