Dillon v. State

Appellant was charged with having knowingly permitted a certain building and a room therein, of which he was the owner, to be used for gaming by certain persons, naming them, and other persons to the grand jury unknown; and that he did knowingly and unlawfully permit persons, naming them, and other persons to the grand jury unknown, in and about the building and the room alleged, to play a certain game of chance called “craps”, which persons engaged in playing for money and other articles of value.

The court tried the cause without the intervention of a jury, upon defendant’s plea of not…