Hicks v. State

The indictment against the plaintiff in error contains three counts: (1) for keeping a gaming-house, (2) for keeping a gaming-table, and (3) for gaming. He was convicted on the first and third counts. The burden of his complaint is that there was no evidence establishing his guilt on the first count. A social gentleman, fond of company and a glass, vocation unknown, who lived and slept in a room upstairs over a bar, the door to which he kept locked, with a peep-hole to look through, and a slide to hide the hole, and who cautiously moved the slide, to look through the hole, in order to…