Portis v. State

This is a conviction for exhibiting a gambling device.

■The record presents three questions for adjudication. 1st. Bid the indictment allege a public offense? 2d. ■ Bid the defendant exhibit a gambling device? 3d. Was there such misconduct on the part of the jury, trying the case, as to warrant the court to set aside the verdict ?

Bid the indictment allege a public offense ?

The indictment accuses James M. Portis of the crime of exhibiting a gambling device, committed as follows, viz : “ The said James M. Portis, in the county aforesaid, on or about the 3d day of January, 1871, did then aqd.…