Mohan v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Cooke. Tried below before Hon. B. F. Mitchell, County Judge. Appeal from a conviction for permitting gaming in a house under appellant’s control; penalty, a fine of $25. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
HENDERSON, Judge.
Appellant was convicted under an information charging him, in three counts, with violating the gaming law. The first count charges that appellant permitted a gaming table and bank, to wit, a crap table to be kept, dealt, and exhibited for gaming purposes upon his premises; the same not being a private residence, and being appurtenant to a public place, to wit, a house for retailing spirituous liquors. The second count charges “that on said date above mentioned, and in said county and State, said James Mohan did rent to Jordan Wagoner a room for the purpose and with the…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Watts v. JohnsonTexas Supreme Court · 1849
- McMurtry v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1898
- Humphreys v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1895
- Bell v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1893
- Robinson v. StateTexas Supreme Court · 1855
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