Commonwealth v. Crupper

The only question in this case, is,-whether the Circuit Court erred in sustaining a demurrer to an indictment charging that defendant, on a specified day, “did “ keep a gambling house — wherein divers unlawful games “ at car^s were plaUed and permitted — and on which games, “money and property was won and lost.”

^ man may ^e the keeper of a gambling house without owning or possessing it, or having such dominion over it ag be necessary for subjecting him, under the statute of 1799, to the penalty therein denounced against any Person f°r permitting unlawful gaming in his house, or in a house of…