City of St. Louis v. Sullivan

.Hayden, J.,

delivered the opinion of thé court.

This is a proceeding instituted in the Police Court of the city of St. Louis for violation of a city ordinance. Chap. 20, art. 2, sect. 6. The defendant is charged, first, with keeping a gambling-table and gambling device commonly called a keno bank, at which divers persons, at the time-stated, played at games of chance called keno, for money and property, contrary to the ordinance ; secondly, with betting money upon the game ; and further, the premises being under his control, with permitting a gambling-table called a keno bank to be used at the…