State v. Robey

— The appellant was convicted of being a common gambler, and has appealed from the judgment entered upon the verdict of the jury. The information designates the *563crime as “conducting a gambling game as owner,” and charges that the appellant, in the. county of Whitman, on the 24th day of August, 1912,

“Then and there being unlawfully, wilfully, and feloniously did then and there open, carry on and operate as owner thereof a gambling game commonly known as poker, the same having been played and operated with cards for checks, said checks then and there being representatives of value, to wit:…