Scribner v. State

Opinion by

White, P. J.,

The indictment in this cause was returned into court on the 3d of June, 1881. It charges “that one Wm. Scribner, in the county of Tarrant and State aforesaid, on the 10th day of March, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, with force and arms did unlawfully play at a game of cards, in a public place, contrary to the form of the statute in such eases made aud provided, etc.”

A motion in arrest of judgment ivas made by defendant, attacking the validity of the indictment, because “none of the public places specially enumerated as public in the…