State v. Coleman
Supreme Court of Alabama
ON points referred as novel and difficult by the Circuit Court of Tallapoosa.
1Opinion of the CourtCollier, C. J.
The defendants, with others, were indicted in the Circuit Court of Tallapoosa, for gaming. The indictment contains three counts, but wo do not deem it neces*15sary to notice any other than the first; that count charges that the defendants and those indicted with them, “on the first day of October, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight in the county aforesaid, did play at cards in a store-house, where spirituous liquors are retailed, contrary,” &c.
The defendants moved the Court to quash this count, but their motion was overruled. They then demurred, and their demurrer being overruled, they pleaded…
2Cited by6 opinions
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- Farris v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1960
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