State v. Meyers

In this case the court say: The defendant (appellant) was tried, in his absence and in the absence of his counsel, at the June Term, 1893, of the Court of General Sessions for Charleston County, for the offence of keeping a gaming table. After his conviction and sentence, he appealed therefrom. The grounds raise substantially these questions: First. That the Circuit Judge erred in failing to charge the jury that au indictment which charged the defendant with keeping a gaming table was not sustained by proof only that the defendant kept a public place for gaming, and that such variance was…