Ash v. State

Appellant was prosecuted under Article 647, P. C. (1925), which reads:

"No person, or any agent of any association of persons or any corporation, shall at any place in this State, engage or assist in pool selling or bookmaking on any horse race or by means of any pool selling or bookmaking, take or accept any bet or aid any other person in betting or taking or accepting any bet upon any horse race to be run, trotted or paced in this State."

The penalty fixed by Article 650 was a fine of not less than two hundred nor more than five hundred dollars, and imprisonment in jail not less than thirty…