Mims v. State

The defendant was convicted of the offence of keeping a gaming-table. His motion for new trial was overruled, to which he excepted. In addition to the grounds that the verdict was contrary to law, evidence, etc., it was alleged in the motion that the court erred in charging : “If you believe from the testimony that the defendant had or kept a table upon the top of which was a spindle that revolved on a pivot and had a hand that pointed outward, which spindle in rotating or turning described a circle, and in the line of this circle were pegs or nails driven to the number of seventy or more;…