Taylor v. State

BBOOKS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted for keeping and exhibiting a gaming table. He filed a plea of former conviction, and offered in support of his plea the former indictment for betting at a gaming table, judgment thereon, and proof that in the previous case wherein he was convicted, the State elected to ask a conviction upon said game as played by him, Cline, with defendant, Fred Tajdor, in which witness paid for said games lost by him at said time and place. Appellant further tendered proof that the box of cigars, while not mentioned by witness in his testimony in the other case was bet,…