Dennis v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the County Court of Elmore. Tried before the Ron. H. J. Lancaster. The appellant in this case, Henry Dennis, was indicted, tried and convicted for playing a game of cards or dice in a public place. The facts of the case are sufficiently stated in the opinion.
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Appeal from the County Court of Elmore. Tried before the Ron. H. J. Lancaster. The appellant in this case, Henry Dennis, was indicted, tried and convicted for playing a game of cards or dice in a public place. The facts of the case are sufficiently stated in the opinion. Upon the introduction of all the evidence, the court, among other things, gave the following instructions to the jury: (1.) “Gentlemen of the jury, I charge you that in order to convict this defendant, you must first believe that the defendant was gaming, as charged in the complaint; 2nd, that the place where the gaming,…
1Opinion of the Court
HARALSON, J. —
The defendant was ‘proceeded against under section 4792 of the Code, for playing a game of cards or dice in a public place.
• The evidence on the part of the State tended to show that defendant and a party of negroes in April, 1903, were engaged in playing with dice in a game of “throwing craps,” near the “Davis place,” about twenty feet from the State lands, outside the fence on the edge of a swamp of the Davis place; near the house of W. W. Goff, who was a guard of convicts confined at'Speigners; that Andrew Thompson and Allen Robinson were of the party playing, and that the…
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