State v. Gilmore

Defendant was indicted at the November term, 1886, of the Jackson criminal court, under section 1547, Revised Statutes, as amended by Acts, 1881, page 112, commonly known as the “ Johnson Gambling Law.” He was convicted and his punishment assessed at six months in the county jail, from which he appeals to this court. It is declared by the section referred to, that whoever shall “be convicted of any of the offences therein named, shall be adjudged guilty of a felony, and shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term not less than two nor more than five years; or by…