Ardovina v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

Appellant was convicted for the offense of keeping and being interested in keeping a building, room and place for the purpose of gambling with cards and dice. The punishment assessed is confinement in the State penitentiary for a term of two years.

The State’s testimony, briefly stated, shows that appellant’s wife had leased the Savoy Hotel situated in the City of El Paso through an agent of Mrs. Kamber, the owner, who resided in the City of New York. It was further shown by the testimony of the agent that since the lessee was a married woman, he demanded that her husband also…