McAllister v. State

RAMSEY, Judge.

Appellant was convicted on a charge preferred by information in the County Court of Montague County, alleging that he “did then and there unlawfully play at a game with and of cards at a place not then and there a private residence occupied bv a family, to wit: in the woods on Sunday night, December 8, 1907.” On this charge he was convicted and his punishment assessed at a fine of $10. By the Act of the Twenty-Seventh Legislature, paye 26, it is provided that “if any person shall play at any game with cards at any house for retailing spirituous liquors, storehouse, tavern, inn…