Hamilton v. State

Newcomb, C.

The appellant was indicted in two counts, and convicted on a jury trial, for violation of the first clause of section 29 of the act defining misdemeanors, which provides that “If any person shall keep, or suffer his or her building, arbor, booth, shed, or tenement, to be used for gaming, * * * he shall be fined not less than fifty, nor more than five hundred dollars.”

The first count of the indictment charged the defendant with keeping a certain house and room to be used, and *587suffered the same to be used, for gaming, and did then and there unlawfully allow divers persons (naming…