Phillips v. State

1. The accusation charged that the defendant did, on a day named, “unlawfully and with force and arms by himself, servants, and agents, keep, have, use, and maintain a gaming-house and room, and, in a house, place, and room occupied by him, permit persons to come together with his knowledge, and play for money and other valuable • things at games and devices for the hazarding of money and other things of value, contrary to the laws,” etc. There was circumstantial evidence from which it might be inferred, to the exclusion of every other reasonable hypothesis, that a game played with cards and…