Thomas v. State

The appellant was tried and convicted of the offense of keeping and being interested in keeping a certain premises, building, room, and place for the purpose of being used as a place to bet, wager, and gamble on a horse race, and his punishment was assessed at confinement in the State penitentiary for a term of two years.

The indictment, omitting the formal parts thereof, reads as follows: "H. R. Thomas, or or about the 28th day of June, A.D. 1934, in said county and State, did then and there unlawfully keep and was then and there interested in keeping a certain premises, building, room and…