Covington v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Smith. Tried below before Hon, B. B. Beaird, County Judge. The opinion states the case. A fine of $35 was the penalty assessed by the verdict.
1Opinion of the Court
Willson Judge.
It is charged in the indictment that the defendant on or about the 1st day of November, A. D. 1888, in Smith County, Texas, did unlawfully wager and bet with one C. L. Caspary upon the result of a public election to be thereafter held in said State for the purpose of electing public officers under the authority of the Constitution and laws of the United States and said State of Texas, to-wit, said public election to be thereafter held on the 6th day of November, A. D. 1888.
It was proved on the trial that on the 7th day of November, 1888, in said Smith County, the defendant…
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