Brown v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Gaming. Keno. Constitutional Law. Jury. Before Judge Johnson. Muscogee Superior Court. May Adjourned Term, 1869. The indictment, which was in the usual form, charged said Brown “with the offence of keeping a gaming table; for that the said G. H. Brown, by himself, on the seventh day of July, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, in the county aforesaid, did keep and have a certain Keno table, the same, then and there, being played with balls and did, then and there,…
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Gaming. Keno. Constitutional Law. Jury. Before Judge Johnson. Muscogee Superior Court. May Adjourned Term, 1869. The indictment, which was in the usual form, charged said Brown “with the offence of keeping a gaming table; for that the said G. H. Brown, by himself, on the seventh day of July, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, in the county aforesaid, did keep and have a certain Keno table, the same, then and there, being played with balls and did, then and there, preside and deal at said Keno table; and the jurors aforesaid, upon their oaths aforesaid, do say, that said Keno table,…
1Opinion of the Court
McCay, J.,
1. Our Code, section 4465, provides that any person who shall preside and deal at any faro table, or use any E O or A B C table, or roulette table or other table of like character, for the purpose of playing and betting at the same, shall be guilty of keeping a gaming table.
In our judgment this is a sweeping statute, and includes within its provisions every device, kept or used or presided over by one person, that others may play and bet thereat. It seems to us that the leading intent was to make it a penal offence, to preside at, or use any kind of a table, whether square or round…
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