Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1826

Commonwealth v. Arnold

Commonwealth v. Arnold
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided October 28, 1826
21 Mass. 251

Commonwealth v. Arnold

Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam.

The indictment is good. It states that the defendant was in the actual employment of an innholder.

The statute makes it unlawful to permit playing cc at cards,” and the words (< the game of” maybe struck out as surplusage.1

See 1 Chitty’a Crim. Law, (3d Amer. ed.) 294,295, notes.

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