Hinton v. State

GRAVES, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of keeping and exhibiting, for the purpose of gaining, a gaming table and bank, and was assessed a penalty of two years in the penitentiary.

There was ample proof of the fact that appellant was banking a game of dice in a room back of the Crown Bar in Amarillo, Texas, and he was not entitled to his requested peremptory instruction of not guilty.

Appellant’s second proposition complains of the court’s refusal to give in charge to the jury the proposition that if the appellant was merely engaging in a gambling game in the same capacity as other members, who…