State v. Brooks

The appellant was indicted fpr gambling, by taking part in a game of poker played for money, to-wit, twenty-five cents.

-No briefs have been filed by either side, but we have attentively read the record, as the law requires us to do in such eases, and are of the opinion that the judgment must be reversed for lack of evidence to support it.

Only one witness was introduced, who testified that he saw the appellant, on the date laid in the indictment, engaged in a game of cards for checks — poker checks. The attempt was -made to prove by this witness that the checks represented money and he said…