Court Opinion

ID: 6901060
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-23 21:55:00.634782+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:06:10.456753
License: Public Domain

Mr. Justice King
delivered the opinion of the court.
Defendant was indicted, tried, and convicted for unlawfully conducting and playing for money, within the cor*246porate limits of the City of North Bend, a certain gambling game known as “roulette.” The charter of the city provides:
“The council has power and authority within the City of North Bend * * to regulate, prevent or suppress gaming * * and to punish any person who engages in such games. * * ” Laws 1903, p. 103, § 27, subd. 5.
The statute bearing upon the same subject (Section 1944, B. & C. Comp.), provides that every person who shall deal, play, or carry on, open, or conduct any of the numerous games there mentioned, among which is that of “roulette,” shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, etc.
The sole question, then, with which we are confronted, is whether this provision of the charter — it having been adopted since section 1944 of The Code — repeals by implication or otherwise, so far as applies to North Bend, that part of the section relating to gambling in reference to which it is maintained by defendant that the charter repeals the statutory provisions on the subject. The charter does not purport to give to the City of North Bend exclusive jurisdiction to prevent gambling, and, since this offense was recognized at common law, the charter does not repeal or affect the general laws upon the subject, or .prevent a prosecution thereof under both the statute and charter.
This question was fully determined by this court, adversely to the position as here urged, in State v. Ayres, 49 Or. 61 (88 Pac. 653: 10 L. R. A. (N. S.) 992); and in State v. Baker, 50 Or. 381 (92 Pac. 1076), making a further discussion thereof unnecessary.
It follows from an application of the rule invoked on the subject in the cases cited that the judgment of the circuit court must be affirmed. Affirmed.