Shaw v. State

JONES, Presiding Judge.

Howard Shaw was charged by an information filed in the District Court of Comanche County with the crime of maintaining a public nuisance by being the manager of a place where certain gambling games, to-wit: dice, were opened, conducted and carried on; was tried, convicted and sentenced to pay a fine of $4,000 and has appealed.

Two questions are presented by the appeal : First. Did the court err in overruling the demurrer to the information ? Sec*987ond. Was the evidence sufficient to sustain a conviction ?

As to the first proposition, the record ■discloses that counsel for…