Sharp v. State

Mabry, J.:

The plaintiff in error and fourteen others were indicted jointly at the Spring term, A. D. 1800,. in-the Third Judicial Circuit of Florida for Madison county, for unlawfully playing and engaging in a game of cards for money in said county and State. The indictment alleged (omitting the formal parts) that Hamp Sharp, plaintiff in error, and fourteen others, naming them, “on the 12th day of April, A. D. 1890, at and in the county, circuit and State aforesaid, with force and arms, in the woods near the town of Ellaville, said county and State, unlawfully then and there played and…