State v. Robey

Citations

• 74 Wash. 562
• 134 P. 174
• 1913 Wash. LEXIS 2093

Syllabus

<p>Indictment and Information — Designation of Offense — Gaming. An information for “conducting a gambling game as owner,” under a statute designating the party committing the crime as “a common gambler,” is not demurrable as having improperly designated the crime, where it was otherwise sufficient.</p> <p>Gaming — Elements of Offense — Statutes — Construction. In an information for conducting a poker game as owner, under Rem. & Bal. Code, § 2469, defining a common gambler as every person who conducts as owner . . . any gambling game or game of chance played with cards . . . “or any scheme or device whereby any money is bet, wagered or hazarded upon any chance or any uncertain or contingent event,” it is not necessary to expressly charge that money was bet; since (a) the quoted words do not apply to that part of the statute; and (b) were it otherwise, the charge of playing poker for money alleges a game of chance, and a hazarding upon an uncertain or contingent event.</p>