Bush v. State

The defendants below were indicted for playing cards at a public place. The evidence showed that the playing took place on the side of a public road. The court instructed the jury, that playing by the public road side was playing at a public place, within the meaning of the statute, to which charge the defendants excepted.

The statute, under which the iudictment is framed, is in the following language : “ If any person shall play at any tavern, inn, store house, for retailing spirituous liquors, or house or place where spirituous liquors are retailed, or given away, or any public house, or…