Lowe v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
From the City Court of Montgomery. Tried before the Hon. Thos. M. Arrington. The defendant in this case was indicted for keeping a gaming-table.
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From the City Court of Montgomery. Tried before the Hon. Thos. M. Arrington. The defendant in this case was indicted for keeping a gaming-table. On tbe trial, as tbe bill of exceptions shows, it appeared that the defendant and ten or twelve other persons were arrested, one night in October, 1888, at his house, by several police officers of the city of Montgomery, who found the party engaged in playing craps, on a blanket spread on the floor ; and were carried to police head-quarters. Ivey Taylor, one of the police officers, testified on the part of the prosecution, that while the prisoners…
1Opinion of the CourtSomerville, J.
The defendant is charged with the offense of keeping or exhibiting a gaming-table for gaming, contrary to the provisions of the statute.
It was proposed by the State to introduce secondary evidence of what had been sworn to by one Jake Munter, an absent witness, who had testified in a former prosecution pending against the defendant, before the Recorder of the city of Montgomery, for violation of a municipal ordinance prohibiting the keeping of a gaming saloon, or house for *51gaming, or table, or other device used for gaming. The evidence, in onr opinion, clearly proves that Mnnter, the absent…
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