Doyle v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Rusk. Tried below before the Hon. J. H. Turner, County Judge. ■ The conviction in this case was for gaming with “ five corns.” The penalty assessed was a fine of $25.
1Opinion of the Court
White, Presiding Judge.
Article 364 of the Penal Code, with regard to betting at a gaming table or bank, was amended as follows by an act approved March 5, 1881: “ Article 364. If any person shall bet or wager at any gaming table or bank, or pigeonhole or Jenny Lind table, or nine or ten-pin alley, such as are mentioned in the six preceding articles, or shall bet or wager any money or other thing of value at any of the games included in the six preceding articles, or at any of the following games, viz., poker dice, jack pot, high dice, low dice, low die, dominoes, euchre with dominoes, poker…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Booth v. StateTexas Supreme Court · 1862
- State v. BlairTexas Supreme Court · 1874