Deisher v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

Conviction was for knowingly permitting property under control of appellant to be used for gambling purposes. Punishment was assessed to two years’ confinement in the penitentiary.

The first count in the indictment, under which appellant was convicted, and the only one submitted to the jury, omitting the formal parts, is as follows: “Did knowingly permit property and premises there situated, and then and" there under his control, the same being then and there not a private residence occupied" by a family, to be used as a place to bet and wager and to gamble with cards then and…