Goolsby v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
The charging part of the indictment is as follows. First count. “That I. L. Goolsby, owner and manager of a pool hall, late of the County of Jones, on or about the 15th day of December, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Hine Hundred and Eleven, with force and arms, in the County of Jones and State of Texas, did then and there unlawfully permit a game of pool to be played upon his premises, the said premises being then and there a pool hall, the same being a public place…
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The charging part of the indictment is as follows. First count. “That I. L. Goolsby, owner and manager of a pool hall, late of the County of Jones, on or about the 15th day of December, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Hine Hundred and Eleven, with force and arms, in the County of Jones and State of Texas, did then and there unlawfully permit a game of pool to be played upon his premises, the said premises being then and there a pool hall, the same being a public place wherein people resorted for the purpose of playing pool, and did then, and there permit and allow the fees of the game to…
1Opinion of the Court
PRENDERGAST, Judge.
Appellant was indicted, tried and convicted under article 572, Penal Code, and fined $25.
After full and thorough consideration in the case of Robertson v. State from McLennan County, recently decided but not yet reported, we held that article 559, Penal Code, which was one of the articles of the Act of 1907, page 108, clearly repealed said article 572, and also article 573, Penal Code. And in that opinion we expressly overruled the case of Simons v. State, 56 Texas Crim. Rep., 339.
Appellant, in the court below, made a motion to quash said indictment, among other grounds,…
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- Simons v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1909