Heath v. State

MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is keeping a gambling house; the punishment, 2 years.

The appellant was shown to have a tenant house located approximately 150 yards to the rear of his farm home. At the *324times involvéd in this prosecution, such house was unoccupied except that one room was used to store feed, seed and farm tools, while another room contained an old dining table, a divan and some chairs. There was no paraphernalia there present designed for the purpose of gambling.

To establish that this house was kept for the purpose of gambling, the state relied upon the following…