Marks v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

This conviction was for playing craps under a charge that it was not done at a private residence. The evidence discloses that the game was played at a private residence. The court charged the jury that if they should find that appellant bet at a game played with dice, called craps, at a house occupied by Charley Harris, or by him and other members of his family, but further believe that the house was a gaming house, as the same has been heretofore defined, then they should find the defendant guilty. The charge defined a gaming house as one where gaming is practised;…