Rogers v. State

The defendant was convicted of gaming, the offense denounced by section 6983, Code 1907. The undisputed evidence shows that the defendant engaged in a game of cards with others, and the state contends that this game was played at a public place within the meanr< ing of this section of the Code. The place where the defendant was detected in the game was within about a mile of the courthouse of De Kalb county, and M. H. Hixon testified:

“Mr. Little and I went to the lower end of town and saw him with six other fellows going down, the road, and some one told us that they were getting up a crew to…