Commonwealth v. Edner

Wingerd, P. J.,

Defendant was indicted under The Penal Code of June 24,1939, P. L. 872, Sec. 605,18 PS §4605, which provides among other things: “Whoever sets up or establishes, or causes to he set up or established, any game or device of address, or hazard, at which money or other valuable thing may or shall be played for, or staked or betted upon; ... is guilty of a misdemeanor, . . .”

There were nine separate indictments, each one setting forth that, on March 4,1950, in Washington Township, Franklin County, Pa., he had set up, etc., a certain slot machine, describing the machine and giving…