Polk v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the Criminal District Court of Dallas No. 2. Tried below before the Hon. Barry Miller. Appeal from a conviction of keeping a gambling house; penalty, two years imprisonment in the penitentiary.
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Appeal from the Criminal District Court of Dallas No. 2. Tried below before the Hon. Barry Miller. Appeal from a conviction of keeping a gambling house; penalty, two years imprisonment in the penitentiary. Omitting formal parts of the indictment, the same alleged ‘1 did then and there unlawfully keep and was interested in keeping certain premises and a certain building and a certain room and a certain place there situate for the purpose of being used as a place to bet and wager and gamble with dice and cards, and a .place to which people then and there resorted to gamble, bet and wager in…
1Opinion of the Court
HARPER, Judge.
Appellant was convicted under the first count of the indictment, wherein he was charged with keeping and being interested in keeping certain premises for the purpose of being used as a place to bet and wager and gamble with cards and dice—a gambling house. This count charged an offense under the laws of this State, and the court did not err in overruling the motion to quash.
The case against this defendant was pending in District Court No. 2 of Dallas County. Appellant filed a request that one Warren Diamond be first placed on trial, representing that his testimony was material…
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