6 Mo. 147 | Mo. | 1839
Opinion of the court delivered by
Mitchell was indicted for permitting gaming in his house, and the indictment being quashed on motion of the defendant, the State prosecutes this appeal to reverse, the judgment of the- circuit court. The indictment is framed on the 17th section, of the 8th article of the act concerning crimes and their punishments page 208-, of the-digest of 1835, and charges that Mitchell did suffer a certain gambling device, commonly called 'cards,, adapted, devised and designed for the purpose of playing at games of chance for money and property, to be used in a certain house of which he the said Thomas, then and there had possession; and that the said Thomas L. Mitchell, then and there, in the said house in his possession as aforesaid, knowingly, wilfully and unlawfully, did suffer games of chance to be played at and upon said gambling device for money and property upon which said games, of chance so played, money was then and there bet, .won and 1o?t &c. The section above referred to, and on