Goggans v. State

1. Where one charged with gaming is convicted on the evidence of one witness, who by positive and direct testimony establishes the guilt of the accused, and no error of law is complained of a judgment of guilty can not by this court be set aside because a number of other witnesses testified that the accused was not present on the occasion when the illegal game was played.

2. The judge, who, by consent, tried this case without the intervention of a jury, had the same right a jury would have possessed to credit that evidence which commended itself to his judgment; and his acceptance of the…