West Virginia Code § 61-10-5

Betting on games of chance; furnishing money or thing of value therefor;
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penalty.
If any person at any place, public or private, bet or wage money or other thing of value on
any game of chance, or shall knowingly furnish any money or other thing of value to any
other person to bet or wage on any such game, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and,
upon conviction, shall be fined not less than $5 nor more than $300, and shaell, if required by
the court, give security for his good behavior for one year, and in default of the payment of
such fine and the costs and the execution of such bond, if such bond ber required, shall be
imprisoned in the county jail not less than ten nor more than thirty days.

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