Stearnes v. State

The indictment charges the defendant with having “ kept a gambling device for the purpose of gaming.’ The question is, whether or not this is a sufficient description of an offence inhibited by Article 412 of the Penal Code: “ Art. 412. If any person shall keep or exhibit, for the purpose of gaming, any gaming table or bank of any name or description whatever, or any table or bank used for gaming which has no name, or shall be in any manner interested in keeping or exhibiting such table or bank, at any place whatever, he shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one…