Williams v. State

The defendant was indicted at the March term, 1938, of Gwinnett superior court for gaming. The allegations of the indictment which are material to the issues were that the defendant “did unlawfully keep, maintain, employ and carry on ai certain scheme and device for the hazarding of money and other valuable things, said scheme and device being called a ‘Jungle* and known as a nickle gambling machine.” Before pleading to the merits the defendant filed a plea of autrefois convict; he then pleaded not guilty to the charge set out in the indictment in the instant case. Both issues were tried…