Hendrix v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma
Appeal from Bryan County Court; J. L. Rappolee, Judge. George Hendrix was convicted of playing poker, and he appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtDoyle, J.
The plaintiff in error was informed against for the offense of unlawfully playing at a certain game of poker for money. Upon his trial he was found guilty of gaming in manner and form as charged in the information. A motion for a new trial was duly filed and overruled, and he was sentenced to pay a fine of $25.
The first witness for the state, Jim Hickey, testified that he lives at Robbers’ Roost, and went on the night of the day named in the information to Brown’s Chapel schoolhouse on Twelve Mile Prairie, in Bryan county, and found there three boys, one of whom was the defendant, playing…
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