Lewis v. State

Morrow, Presiding Judge.

The conviction is for keeping a gambling house; penalty assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for two years.

The prosecution is based upon Article 625, P. C., which denounces as felony the keeping of “any premises, building, room or place for the purpose of being used as a place to bet or wager, or to gamble with cards, dice, or dominoes, etc.”

To sustain a conviction under the terms of the article mentioned, it must be shown that the accused had some interest in the premises, building, room or place, in which the games were played. See Francis v. State, 233 S. W.…