State v. Wolf
| Decision Date | 29 November 1910 |
| Citation | 132 S.W. 225,230 Mo. 676 |
| Parties | STATE v. WOLF. |
| Court | Missouri Supreme Court |
Appeal from St. Louis Circuit Court; J. Hugo Grimm, Judge.
Harry Wolf was convicted of keeping a gaming table, and appeals. Affirmed.
J. D. Howe and Alphonso Howe, for appellant. E. W. Major, Atty. Gen., and Jno. M. Atkinson, for the State.
Defendant was indicted, together with Frank Margulis, by the grand jury of the city of St. Louis at the February term, 1909, for feloniously setting up and keeping a crap table adapted, devised, and designed for the purpose of playing games of chance for money and property and feloniously inducing, enticing and permitting divers persons to bet and play at and upon a game played on and by means of such gambling device against the peace and dignity of the state. A severance was granted, and pleas of not guilty entered, and defendant put upon his trial, which resulted in a verdict of guilty as charged, and his punishment assessed at imprisonment in the city jail for six months. Motions for a new trial and in arrest were filed in due time, heard and overruled, and the defendant sentenced in accordance with the verdict. From that sentence he has appealed. Defendant is not represented in this court by counsel.
During the month of October, 1908, there was what was known as the "Oxford Club," at No. 920 North Fifteenth street. It appears to have been the resort of professional gamblers. The building was three stories in height. The third floor was used exclusively for crap and card games. During October, 1908, the members of this so-called club let the defendant and Margulis have the exclusive privilege of operating a crap table and game in the third story of this building. For this privilege defendant and Margulis agreed to pay the bartender, who was the club's steward, one-half of all the winnings and rake-offs of the crap table and games. The entrance to the room was constantly watched...
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