Cole v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Brown. Tried below before Hon. B. P. Conner, County Judge. The conviction was for playing cards in a public place, and the penalty assessed against the appellant was a fine of ten dollars.
1Opinion of the Court
White, Presiding Judge.
The charge as set forth in the indictment was that defendant did, etc., “play at a game with cards at a certain public house, to-wit, a certain school house on Stepp’s Creek, in said county and State, commonly open to the public for educational purposes, and business connected therewith, and where people did then and there resort for the purposes aforesaid, and for the purpose of business, recreation, and amusement, and said house being then and there a public place,” etc.
The evidence fully established that the house where the playing took place was a school house,…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- State v. AlveyTexas Supreme Court · 1861
- State v. BarnsTexas Supreme Court · 1860
3Cited by4 opinions
- Black v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1921
- Davis v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1922
- Opinion No., Texas Attorney General Reports1992
- Untitled Texas Attorney General Opinion, Texas Attorney General Reports1992