Toney v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from City Court of Montgomery. Tried before Hon. John A. Minnis. The appellant, Toney, was convicted under an indictment which charged that he kept or exhibited a gaming table for gaming, or was interested or concerned in the keeping or exhibiting thereof.
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Appeal from City Court of Montgomery. Tried before Hon. John A. Minnis. The appellant, Toney, was convicted under an indictment which charged that he kept or exhibited a gaming table for gaming, or was interested or concerned in the keeping or exhibiting thereof. Sam Tyson, a witness for the State, testified that within twelve months before the finding of the indictment, the defendant was the proprietor of a cellar or room, located under a building in the city of Montgomery, and that he kept said room or cellar for the purposes of gaming; that in said room he kept an ordinary pine table, upon…
1Opinion of the CourtBrickell, C. J.
The offence denounced by the statute under which the indictment Avas found, is the keeping or exhibiting, or being interested or concerned in keeping or exhibiting any table for gaming, of Avhatsoever name, kind, or description, not regularly licensed under the laAVS of this State. — Code of 1876, § 4208. It is not a gaming table, if there be such, as distinguished from other tables, that alone falls AAdthin the prohibition of the statute. Nor is the char*4acter of the table, whether it contains devices, or any appliances, adapted and essential to particular gaming, an element of the offence.…
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