People v. Torrey

This is an appeal from an order denying appellant’s motion for new trial. He was charged by an information filed by the district attorney of San Bernardino County with violation of the following provisions of section 337a of the Penal Code:

“Every person . . . who, whether for gain, hire, reward, or gratuitously, or otherwise, at any time or place, records, or registers any bet or bets, wager or wagers, upon the result, or purported result, of any trial, or purported trial, or contest, or purported contest, of skill, speed or power of endurance of man or beast, or between men, beasts, or…