State v. Shanklin

Citations

• 51 Wash. 35
• 97 P. 969
• 1908 Wash. LEXIS 959

Syllabus

<p>Gaming — Keeping Gambling Resobt — Elements of Offense— Pool Selling. The keeping and having in charge of a public house or resort and engaging in betting, winning, and losing money in selling pools on horse races to persons congregating and resorting in such place for that purpose, may be informed against under Bal. Code, § 3096, providing that all public houses or places of resort where gambling is carried on or permitted are nuisances, and that the owners or keepers are punishable therefor as thereinafter provided; and this, whether or not selling pools on horse races is “gambling” within Bal. Code, § 7260, defining gambling and prescribing a punishment therefor; since the acts defined are not the only ones that constitute gambling.</p>