Baker v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Hurt

Reversing.

This appeal involves the question as to whether or not a conviction, for the offense of gambling, by engaging in a game of “poker” constitutes á breach of a bond for “good behavior” required by section 2557b, subsection 3 of Kentucky Statutes, as amended by chapter 53, of Session Acts of 1916. The section of the statutes embraced by the four subsections of section. 2557b, supra, was enacted on March 11, 1902, and the third subsection provided, that, on the second, or any subsequent conviction of one, for a violation of the Act of March 10, 1894, or…