Shoope v. State

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING.

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

The offense is that defined in article 625, P. C., 1925.

In the second count of the indictment the following is charged:

■ “* * * did then and there keep and was interested in keeping a building, house and room for the purpose of being used as a place to bet and wager and to gamble with dice, and as place where people did then and there resort to gamble, bet and wager upon games played with dice.”

The statute involved has been considered in many cases. Among them are Sanchez v. State, 90 Texas Crim. Rep., 156, 233 S. W., 982; Francis v. State, 90…