Pythian v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

—The appeal is from a judgment assessing against appellant a fine of $25 for violating the gaming law.

The conviction is under Article 563 of the Penal Code, which reads thus:

“If any person shall go into or remain in any gambling house, knowing the same to be such, or shall remain in any place where any of the games prohibited by this act or, within his knowledge, being played, dealt or exhibited, he shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five nor more than fifty dollars. Gambling house and gaming house, as used in this law, is meant any place where people…