(Download) "People V. Pierce" by Supreme Court Of California In Bank * Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: People V. Pierce
- Author : Supreme Court Of California In Bank
- Release Date : January 24, 1939
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 54 KB
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CURTIS, J. Defendants were convicted in the Superior Court of the County of Los Angeles of the crime of violating subdivision 2 of section 337a of the Penal Code. Said subdivision of said section of the code, reads as follows: "Every person, who, whether for gain, hire, reward, or gratuitously, or otherwise, keeps or occupies, for any period of time whatsoever, any room, shed, tenement, tent, booth, building, float, vessel, place, stand or enclosure, of any kind or any part thereof with a book or books, paper or papers, apparatus, device or paraphernalia, for the purpose of recording or registering any bet or bets, or any purported bet or bets, or wager or wagers, or any purported wager or wagers, or of selling pools, or purported pools, upon the result or purported result, of any trial, or purported trial, or contest, or purported contest, of skill, speed or power of endurance of man or beast, or between men, beasts, or mechanical apparatus, or upon the result, or purported result, of any lot, chance, casualty, unknown or contingent event whatsoever, is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail or state prison for a period of not less than thirty days and not exceeding one year."