Frank Jones and Elbert Lewis v. State

Graves, Judge.

The appellants were tried together and convicted of “operating a gaming house as charged in the indictment, and the punishment of each fixed at two years in the penitentiary.

The charge set forth in the indictment is that both the defendants “did then and there unlawfully keep and was then and there interested in keeping a certain room, building and place there situate for the purpose of being used as a place to bet and wager and to gamble with cards, dice and dominoes then and there played, and as a place where people did then and there resort to gamble, bet and wager on games…