Huff v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
At the May term 1857 of the Circuit court of Franklin county, Wilson Huff was presented by the grand jury for keeping and exhibiting an unlawful game played with dice, called chuckaluck, at the tavern-house of Samuel S. Helms in the town of Rockymount in Franklin county, within twelve months last past. At the October term 1857 Huff appeared ; and befoi’e pleading, moved the court to quash the presentment against him; which motion the court overruled; and he excepted.
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At the May term 1857 of the Circuit court of Franklin county, Wilson Huff was presented by the grand jury for keeping and exhibiting an unlawful game played with dice, called chuckaluck, at the tavern-house of Samuel S. Helms in the town of Rockymount in Franklin county, within twelve months last past. At the October term 1857 Huff appeared ; and befoi’e pleading, moved the court to quash the presentment against him; which motion the court overruled; and he excepted. He then pleaded not guilty; and there was a verdict against him for a fine of one hundred dollars, and for two months’…
1Opinion of the Court
Allen, P.
The Code, chap. 198, § 1, p. 742, provides, that a free person who shall keep or exhibit a gaming table commonly called A B C, or E 0 table, or faro bank, or a table of the like kind under any denomination, whether the game or table be played with cards, dice or otherwise, shall be confined in jail not less than two nor more than twelve months, and be fined not less than one hundred nor more than one thousand dollars. The plaintiff in error was presented for keeping and exhibiting an unlawful game played with dice, called chuckaluck, at the tavern-house of S. S. Helms in the town of…
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