Robertson v. State

Appellant was convicted for knowingly permitting property under his control to be used to gamble with cards, or knowingly permitting property under his control to be used as a place where people resort to gamble, and his penalty fixed at two years confinement in the penitentiary.

The statute under which the conviction was had is article 559, Penal Code, which was, before the revision of 1911, article 388b of the Acts of 1907, page 107. The said article is as follows:

"Article 559. If any person shall rent to another, or shall keep or be in any manner interested in keeping, any premises,…