Fridge v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the Criminal District Court of Tarrant. Tried below before the Honorable Geo. E. Hosey. Appeal from the conviction of keeping a gambling house; penalty, two years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The opinion states the case. Cited: Simons v. State, 56 Texas Crim. Rep., 339. Cited Parshall v. State, 138 S. W. 'Rep., 759; Knox v. State, 138 id., 787; Goodwin v. State, 143 id., 939; Robertson v. State, 70 Texas Crim.
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Appeal from the Criminal District Court of Tarrant. Tried below before the Honorable Geo. E. Hosey. Appeal from the conviction of keeping a gambling house; penalty, two years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The opinion states the case. Cited: Simons v. State, 56 Texas Crim. Rep., 339. Cited Parshall v. State, 138 S. W. 'Rep., 759; Knox v. State, 138 id., 787; Goodwin v. State, 143 id., 939; Robertson v. State, 70 Texas Crim. Rep., 307; Stevens v. State, 70 id., 565; Williams v. State, 71 id., 6.
1Opinion of the Court
LATTIMORE, Judge.
Appellant was convicted in the Criminal District Court of Tarrant County of keeping and being interested in keeping a gambling house, and his punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for two years.
Prior to 1907 our statute books contained many articles forbidding the various phases of gaming and running gambling houses, all of the things forbidden being misdemeanors. By the provisions of Chapter 49, Acts Regular Session, Thirtieth Legislature, Article 388 of the Penal Code was amended by rewriting said article and adding thereto numerous subdivisions, under the…
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- Francis v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1921
- Deisher v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1921
- Robertson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1913
- Simons v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1909
- Walters v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1910
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