Ethridge v. State

PBEHDEBGAST, Presiding Judge.

This is a companion case with No. 3364, Lee Ethridge, this day decided. There is no distinction whatever between the cases and question—only different defendants. On October 13, 1914, proper complaint was made and sworn to before the county clerk of Travis County, charging appellant with unlawfully betting with dice, at a game of craps, on that samé day, but before the complaint was made and filed. The clerk immediately filed the complaint in the County Court, and on the same day, by his agreement, the case was tried before a jury, he pleading only not guilty. The…