Renfro v. State

MORROW, Judge.

The appellant’s conviction was for violation of the law against gaming, the specific charge being as follows: “Did then and there unlawfully play at a game played with cards at a place which was not then and there a private residence and then and there occupied by a family.”

■ The statute covering the offense is article 548, P. C. It appeared from the State’s testimony that two witnesses, who were officers of the county, entertained suspicions that persons in a certain hotel were engaged in a game of poker, and that they went to the hotel and looked through the transom over the…