Dodson v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of the violation of the law prohibiting the keeping of premises for the purpose of being used as a place to gamble with dice and cards; his punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of four years.

A plea in abatement was interposed in which it was alleged that the appellant had been called before the grand jury and required to give testimony, by reason of which he was exempted from prosecution of the-offense charge by virtue of the terms of Article 574 of the Penal Code, which reads thus: “Any court, officer or tribunal,…