People v. Reilly

Respondent was convicted under an ordinance of the city of Detroit, section 3 of which undertook to punish the maintaining of any “ lottery, policy, pool, bucket-shop, board of trade, or any like scheme or place for drawing or disposing of money, wheat, or other property within the city.” The complaint was in general terms, and without details or description of the offense charged, except that it was keeping and maintaining “ a pool for disposing of money by means of wagers on games of base-ball, horse-races, and other like games and sports,” and maintaining “a lottery for disposing of money.”