Mount v. State

This was a prosecution for gaming, founded on section 28, 2 R. S., 435, which provides that “ every person who shall, by playing or betting at or upon any game or wager whatever, either lose or win any article of value, shall be fined,” &c. The information charges that one Groff,> on, &c., at, &c., owned and kept a ten pin alley for hire, and .that Mount, the defendant, and one Miller then and there hired of Groff the use of the alley, to play one game of ten pins, for which they agreed to pay him 10 cents; and that in pursuance of said hiring, Mount and Miller then and there played said game…