Huffman v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Feom the Circuit Court of Coosa. Tried before the Hon. Geo. D. Shortridge. INDICTMENT against Henry A. Huffman, in the general form prescribed by the Code, for gaming.
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Feom the Circuit Court of Coosa. Tried before the Hon. Geo. D. Shortridge. INDICTMENT against Henry A. Huffman, in the general form prescribed by the Code, for gaming. The bill of exceptions, sealed on the trial at the instance of the defendant, is as follows: “ The State introduced a witness, who testified, that he had seen the defendant, with five others, within twelve months previous to thefinding of the indictment, playing cards in the defendant’s bed-room ; that the doors were locked, the windows closed, and cloth hung over the key-holes, and over every crack through which a person could…
1Opinion of the CourtRice, C. J.
The charge of the court authorized the jury to find the defendant guilty, without any proof that he had ever played at a game with cards in the county in which the indictment was preferred. For the error of the charge in this respect, the judgment must be reversed, and the cause remanded. — Brown v. The State, 27 Ala. Rep. 47.
It is due to the able counsel for the defendant, to say that we have carefully considered the argument made against the exposition of section 3243 of the Code which is contained in Windham v. The State, 26 Ala. Rep. 69, and Brown v. The State, 27 Ala. 47 ; and that we…
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