People v. Todd
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from court of general sessions, Yew York county. Conviction of Elliott W. Todd for keeping a gambling room. Defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtBrady, J.
The transactions which were alleged to constitute gambling, under section 343 of the Penal Code, related to the fluctuation in the price of stocks bought and sold in the Yew York Stock Exchange, as indicated by a stock quotation ticker. The purchaser of a stock named by him would deposit a margin, and receive an acknowledgment in printed form, with blanks *26properly filled, as follows: “Mr. ■-: In consideration of $--, received, can buy of the undersigned, if called for before the stocks sells, — per cent, below, or 5 per cent, above, contract price,-shares, at-. E. W. Todd. ” And in case of a…
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