Reed v. State

The indictment in this case, which was found and presented in court by the grand jury at a regular term of the district court of Milam county, charges that the appellant, on the 21st of March, 1874, “ did then and there unlawfully and willfully permit and allow, in a certain house then and there being under the control of said Poley Reed, *2one Morris A. Brophy to keep and exhibit, for the purpose of gaming and obtaining bets thereon, a certain gaming bank, commonly called a chuck-luck bank.” To this indictment defendant filed two pleas in abatement—upon the ground that the grand jury which…