Commonwealth v. Garland
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASÉ 2 —INDICTMENT— APPEAL FROM WARREN EQUITY AND CRIMINAL COtiUT. cited 1st and 2d sections of act of $358,1 Rev. Stat., page 572.
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE DUVALL
delivered the opinion op the court:
This was an indictment under the act of 1858, (1 Rev. Stat., page 572,) by the first section of which", any free white person who shall play with a negro any game of cards or other game, whereby money or other thing of valué shall be bet, won, or lost, shall be fined not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars, and disqualified from holding office.
The second section provides that any free white person, who shall play at any game whatever, with a free negro or slave, shall be fined not less than ten nor more than twenty dollars.
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