People v. Weithoff

'Montgomery, J.

The respondent was prosecuted under section 2029 of Howell’s Statutes, the information charging that the said respondent did, for hire, gain, and reward, keep and maintain a gaming room, contrary to the provisions of said section. The section reads:

“Any person who shall, for hire, gain, or reward, keep or maintain a gaming room, or a gaming table, or any game of skill or chance, or partly of skill and partly of chance, * * * shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.”

The evidence on the part of the prosecution showed that the respondent occupied and maintained a room, kept a…