Countee v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Conviction for operating a pool hall; punishment, a fine of $25.

Appellant was charged by information with operating and maintaining a pool hall in a building situated in Harris county, Texas, same being described as a hall, room and building in which he did then and there exhibit pool tables for hire, revenue and monetary gain. The trial was before the court, a jury being waived. The punishment was the minimum fine.

That appellant was engaged in running a hall where pool tables were kept and exhibited, and upon which the game of pool was then and there played, was not…