39 Mo. 420 | Mo. | 1867
delivered the opinion of the court.
The plaintiff in error in this case w.as indicted at the February term of the Cole Circuit Court, under the 17th section of Art. VIII., R. C. 1855. The indictment contains but one count, and the offence is charged to be the betting of money “ upon a game of chance, which said game of chance was then and there played at, upon, and by means of a billiard
The other judges concurring, the judgment will be affirmed.