Brock v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Indictment, for playing and betting at cards, in Forsyth Superior Court. Tried before Judge Brown, at February Term, 1857. These two cases being against the same party, and involving the same question, were heard and considered together. Thomas W. Brock was indicted for playing, and betting at cards ; it did not appear whether with a white man or a negro. The defendant pleaded guilty in both cases.
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Indictment, for playing and betting at cards, in Forsyth Superior Court. Tried before Judge Brown, at February Term, 1857. These two cases being against the same party, and involving the same question, were heard and considered together. Thomas W. Brock was indicted for playing, and betting at cards ; it did not appear whether with a white man or a negro. The defendant pleaded guilty in both cases. The Court passed upon him the following sentence, to-wit: “Whereupon it is considered and adjudged by the Court, that the defendant do pay afine of seventy-five dollars, and the cost of this…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court. —
Benning, J.
delivering the opinion.
The question is, whether the sentences in those two consolidated cases, were right.
The exceptions to the sentences, were couched in general terms, and were placed on no particular ground or grounds. They were in these words — “To which judgment and sentence, Counsel for the defendant excepted.”
But a ground was taken in the bills of exceptions, why the sentences were wrong, viz: that the sort of punishment imposed by those sentences, is not the sort which the law authorizes to be imposed in such cases.
This was held by this Court, not to be a…
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