Johnson v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Gambling with a negro, in Macon Superior Court. Tried before Judge Warren, February Term, 1850. The indictment in this case, charged the defendant with “ the offence of playing with a negro at a game of cards.” For that the defendant, on a certain day specified, “ did play at a game of cards with a negro slave” named, “ for the purpose of winning or losing money or spirituous liquors, contrary to the laws,” &c.
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Gambling with a negro, in Macon Superior Court. Tried before Judge Warren, February Term, 1850. The indictment in this case, charged the defendant with “ the offence of playing with a negro at a game of cards.” For that the defendant, on a certain day specified, “ did play at a game of cards with a negro slave” named, “ for the purpose of winning or losing money or spirituous liquors, contrary to the laws,” &c. The defendant, on the trial, moved to take a verdict, on the ground that the indictment and proof were too uncertain — no specific sum of money or specific article being alleged or…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Nisbet, J.
delivering the opinion.
The offence charged in this indictment is gambling with negroes, under the Act of 1847 ; and the questions for review depend upon a construction of that Act. The indictment charges that the defendants are guilty of “ the offence of playing with a negro at a game of cards. For that the said defendant, on the first day of March, in the year eighteen hundred and forty-nine, in the County aforesaid, did then and there, unlawfully, and with force and arms, play at a game of cards with a negro slave named Arthur — said negro being then and there the…
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