Canizares v. State

GRAVES, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of operating a gaming device called policy, and was awarded a sentence of three years in the penitentiary.

The testimony shows that this game was operated in Houston, Harris County, by means of the services of persons called “runners” who would sell policy tickets at various places throughout the city, sometime on the streets, keeping a copy *78thereof, and the copies of such ticket being given over to one Leroy Gentry as head pick-up man, and twice a day this head pick-up man would contact a further person, who would at such time give out the winning numbers…