Commonwealth v. Starr

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Turner

Reversing.

Appellee was indicted under the first section of an act of 1908, the title of which is, “An Act declaring it unlawful and providing penalties for any person to provide, open, control, manage or keep any room, building, float, vessel or premises in this Commonwealth wherein any persons may assemble and congregate to bet and wager money upon horse races and other contests run *261and decided in this State or in any other State or country, or to aid or ahet another in so doing, or to assemble or bet or wager therein.” The first section of that act…