City of Birmingham v. Richard

JOHNSON, Judge.

This is an appeal from the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, Alabama, granting a motion to quash a complaint charging appellee with violating the General Code of Birmingham in that he did play at a game of chance in a private home for money.

*128Appellee was convicted in Recorder’s Court of Birmingham on October 19, 1965, on the charge of gaming in violation of the General Code of the City of Birmingham, 1964, Sec. 23-1, which reads, “No person shall play at any game of chance or hazard for money or other valuable thing or in any way aid or abet, countenance or encourage such game.”