White v. State

The plaintiff in error was convicted, in the county court of Irwin county, of the offense of keeping a gaming-house. He sued out a certiorari, complaining that his conviction was not warranted by the evidence. Taking the testimony introduced on the trial most strongly for the State, it was sufficient to establish the following facts only: There were in the city of Fitzgerald three small houses adjacent to each other. One of them was occupied by the accused as a tenant, and the distance between it and another of them was about six feet. In the latter the accused was on one occasion seen in…