Each of several distinct bets on a gaming device is a separate offense though done at the same sitting. Betting on such device is not a continuing offense.143

But the keeping of a gaming house is a continuing offense though continued for a long period of time.144

So where a person keeps a gaming device and permits persons to play on it, there is but one offense if done at the same time.145

137 Parmer vs. State, 91 Ga., 152;

Flynn vs. State, 34 Ark., 441;

State vs. McDonald, 20 Or., 523; Hughes Cr. Law, Sec.

2206. 138 2 McClain Cr. Law, Sec. 1286. 139 Jackson vs. State (Tex.), 25 S.

W., 773; Underhill's Cr. Ev., Sec. 473; Ford vs. State, 123 Ala., 81.

140 Simmons vs. State, 106 Ga., 355.

141 Hughes Cr. Law, Sec. 2221. 142 Gibbons vs. People, 33 111., 446;

Porter vs. State, 51 Ga., 300; Ranson vs. State, 26 Fla., 364.

143 Buck vs. State, 1 Ohio St., 51;

Swallow vs. State, 20 Ala., 30; Torney vs. State, 13 Mo., 455.

144 State vs. Lindley, 14 Ind., 430;

Com. vs. Smith, 166 Mass., 370. 145 State vs. Oswold, 59 Kan., 508.

Some act must be done as a beginning of the game.146

The offense is complete when the stake or wager is put up or the offer to be is accepted.147

But under one statute the mere having a slot machine, whether it be kept for the purpose of gaming or not, is an offense.148