Gaming Houses

Houses kept for the purpose of permitting persons to gamble for money or other valuable thing. They are nuisances in the eye of the law, being detrimental to the public, as they promote cheating and other corrupt practices. 1 Russ. Crimes, 299; Rose. Crim. Ev. 663; 3 Denio (N. Y.) 101. A house, of Bce, room, or other place kept for the purpose of betting between persons resorting thereto. Steph. Crim. Law, art. 182.

Houses kept for the purpose of permitting persons to gamble for money or other valuable thing. They are nuisances in the eyes of the law, being detrimental to the public, as they promote cheating and other corrupt practices; 1 Russ. Cr. 299; Rose, Cr. Ev. 663; People v. Jackson, 3 Den. (N. Y.) 101, 45 Am. Dec. 449. See Haring v. State, 51 N. J. L. 386, 17 Atl. 1079; id., 63 N. J. L, 6G4, 23 Atl. 581; State v. Eaton, 85 Me. 237, 27 Atl. 126; State v. Mosby, 53 Mo. App. 571. In an indictment under a statute prohibiting gaming houses, the special facts making such a house a nuisance must be averred; Whar. Cr. Law § 1466; Whar. Cr. PI, and Pr. §§ 154, 230; U. S. v. Ringgold, 6 Cra. 378, Fed, Cas. No. 16,167. The proprietor of a gaming establishment cannot take advantage of a statute enabling a person losing money at a game of chance to recover it back; Brown V. Thompson, 14 Bush (Ky.) 538, 29 Am. Rep. 416. They are sometimes prosecuted as disorderly houses (q. v.)

In criminal law. Houses la which gambling is carried on as the business of the occupants, and which are frequented by persons for that purpose. They are nuisances, in the eyes of the law, being detrimental to the public, as they promote cheating and other corrupt practices. 1 Russ. Crimes, 299; Rose. Crim. Ev. 663; People v. Jackson, 3 Denio (N. Yd 101, 45 Am. Dec. 449; Anderson v. State (Tex. App.) 12 S. W. 869; People v. Weithoff, 51 Mich. 203, 16 N. W. 442, 47 Am. Rep 557 ; Morgan v. State, 42 Tex. Cr. R. 422, 60 S. W. 763.

Defined under Gaming in Black's Law Dictionary.

In criminal law. Honses in which gambling is carried on as the business of the occupants, and which are frequented by persons forthat purpose. They are nuisances, in the eyes of the law, being detrimental to the public, as they promote cheating and other corrupt practices. 1 Russ. Crimes, 299; liose. Crim, Ey. 663; 3 Denio, 101.

crim. law, are houses kept for the purpose of permitting persons to game for money or other valuable thing. They fire nuisances in the eye of the law, being detrimental to the public, as they promote cheating and other corrupt practices. 1 Russ. on Cr. 299; Roscoe’s Cr. Ev. 663; Hawk. haps, in most of the states, by statutory provisions.