Wooten v. State
Supreme Court of Florida
Writ of error to the Criminal Court of Record for Duval county. The offence with which the plaintiff in error is charged is keeping a room for the purpose of gambling. The only testimony is that introduced by the State. It is as follows: Ed. Williams testified that on Friday, March 2d, 1888, between 10 and 11 o’clock P. M., he invaded certain premises on Newnan street, in Jacksonville, Duval county, Florida.
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Writ of error to the Criminal Court of Record for Duval county. The offence with which the plaintiff in error is charged is keeping a room for the purpose of gambling. The only testimony is that introduced by the State. It is as follows: Ed. Williams testified that on Friday, March 2d, 1888, between 10 and 11 o’clock P. M., he invaded certain premises on Newnan street, in Jacksonville, Duval county, Florida. That he was instructed by the Sheriff to take some men and raid what had been reported to him as a gambling house, known as the Atlantic Garden, situated on said street. That he went,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Eaney
I. This is a writ of error to the Criminal Court of Eecnrd of Duval county, Secs. 5 and 24, Art. Y, Constitution, and Chapter 3731, Laws of 1887. The plaintiff in error was found guilty upon an information chargingthat he, on the third day of March, of the present year, in the named county in this State “ did unlawfully have, keep, exercise and maintain a gambling room situated on Newnan street, in the city of Jacksonville, for the purpose of gaming, contrary to the form of the statute in such cases made and provided and the sentence pronounced upon him is confinement in the county jail at…
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