Bledsoe v. State

The only question in this case is, whether or not the place was public, at which the cards were played. A *224place may be public all the time, as a street, public square, in a town and the like. It may be made public, for the time being only, by the congregation of a number of people, as at a muster ground, a race course, or a camp-meeting or the like, or a place in the woods where a number of persons had notoriously congregated for the purpose of gaming : or a place in the woods, notorious as a resort for gaming. It would be difficult to define and enumerate every mode by which a place usually…