Windham v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
AppeaIi from tbe Circuit Court of Pickens. Tried before the Hon. G-eo. D. Shortbidge. The appellants were indicted (under section 3248 of the Code) for gaming.
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AppeaIi from tbe Circuit Court of Pickens. Tried before the Hon. G-eo. D. Shortbidge. The appellants were indicted (under section 3248 of the Code) for gaming. On the trial, as appears from the bill of exceptions, “ it was proved that the defendants played at a game with cards in a room of a house used for storing goods, &c., on the bank of a navigable river in the county, and about one hundred yards from the cotton sheds where cotton to be shipped was stored ; that the occupant of .said room was the clerk of the warehouse, and made out and distributed cotton receipts in said room ; that it…
1Opinion of the CourtRice, J.
— Section 3243 of the Code is a substantial transcript of the law against gaming which had been of force at least from 1842 until the Code took effect. That section is in the following words: “If any person plays at any game with cards, or dice,' or with any device or substitute for the same, at any tavern, inn, store-house for retailing spirituous liquor, or house or place where spirituous liquor is retailed or given away; or any public house, or highway, or in any other public place ; or in any out-house where people resort, such person, on conviction, must be fined not less than twenty or…
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