Sumner v. State

An indictment was found against the appellant in the court below, charging that “at said county of Greene, on the 15th day of January, 1880, and on divers ether days and times between that day and the day of making this presentment, one William Sumner was unlawfully .the keeper and exhibitor of, and did then and there unlawfully keep and exhibit, a certain gaming table, commonly .known as a pool table, for the purpose of wagering articles of value upon the result of games played thereon, contrary,” etc. On trial of the cause, the defendant was convicted and fined, a motion made by him for a…