Hanks v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Travis. Tried below before the Hon. George Calhoun. Appeal from a conviction of unlawfully keeping and exhibiting, for the purpose of gaming, a gaming table and bank; penalty, two years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
RAMSEY, Judge.
Appellant was indicted in the District Court of Travis County, on a charge that he did then and there unlawfully keep and exhibit for the purpose of gaming, a gaming table and bank.
This indictment was returned and prosecution began and concluded under article 388a of the Act of the Thirtieth Legislature, Chapter XLIX, p. 108. This article is as follows: “If any person shall directly or as agent or employee for another or through any agent or agents keep or exhibit for the purpose of gaming, any policy game, any gaming table, bank, wheel or device of any name or description…
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