Harbaugh v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Warren county; the Hon. John S. Thompson, Judge, presiding. The opinion of the court contains a statement of the case.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Walker
This was an indictment against plaintiff in error for keeping a common gaming house for his gain and profit. The prosecution is under the one hundred and twenty-ninth section of chapter entitled Criminal Jurisprudence, which declares that, if any person shall, for his profit or gain, keep, have or maintain a common gaming house, table or room, or in any house or place occupied by him or her, procure or permit any persons to frequent or come together to play for money or other valuable things at any game, every offender, on conviction, shall be fined not exceeding one hundred dollars, or…
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