Wingard v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Indictments for playing and betting at cards, in Raker Superior Court. Tried before Judge Perkins, April Term, 1853. At the April Term, 1853, of Baker Superior Court, Daniel Wingard and others were severally tried and convicted, on the following bill of indictment.
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Indictments for playing and betting at cards, in Raker Superior Court. Tried before Judge Perkins, April Term, 1853. At the April Term, 1853, of Baker Superior Court, Daniel Wingard and others were severally tried and convicted, on the following bill of indictment. “ Georgia, Baker County : The Grand Jurors, sworn, chosen and selected for the'County of Baker, in the name and behalf of the citizens of Georgia, charge and accuse Thomas Lyon, William W. Hall, Thomas J. Johnson, Daniel Wingard, Sherwood Hooks, James F. Keaton and David Ham, of the County and State aforesaid, with the offence of…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Lumpkin, J.
delivering the opinion.
It will be perceived that there is but one count in this indictment, and upon this the defendants were separately tried and convicted. And to procure a reversal of the judgment, they allege—
■* [1.] That the indictment was radically defective, in uniting-several distinct and'incompatible offences in one count, to wit: the crime of playing and betting for money with cards, at a *398game of “ poleer, whist, faro, seven up, three up, and other games played with cards,” and that the Court refused to compel the Solicitor General to elect for which of said…
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