Berwick v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

The conviction is for the offense of keeping and exhibiting, for the purpose of gaming, a gaming table, to-wit: a Do and Don’t Dice Table. The punishment-assessed is confinement in the State penitentiary for a period of two years.

The facts, as developed upon the trial, show that on the night of the 11th day of August, 1945, three Texas Rangers went to a place known as Betty’s Place at Vidor, in Orange County, and raided it. At the time the Rangers entered the place, there were approximately 25 or 30 people engaged in shooting dice on what is referred to by the witnesses as a…