Chambers v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Indictment for Betting at Cards. From the Oircnit Court of Crenshaw. Tried before the lion. John P. ITubbard. The indictment in this case, as copied in the transcript, charged that the defendant “ bet at a game with cards, or dice, or some other device or substitute for cards or dice, at a tavern, inn,” &c.
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Indictment for Betting at Cards. From the Oircnit Court of Crenshaw. Tried before the lion. John P. ITubbard. The indictment in this case, as copied in the transcript, charged that the defendant “ bet at a game with cards, or dice, or some other device or substitute for cards or dice, at a tavern, inn,” &c. The bill of exceptions purports to set out ¿11 the evidence adduced on the trial, and shows that the case was treated as an indictment for playing cards at some place designated in the statute; the only contested questions being, what acts on the part of the defendant amounted to playing,…
1Opinion of the CourtSomeryille, J.
The Circuit Court erred in this case, in refusing to give the general charge requested by the defendant, instructing the jury to acquit him if they believed the evidence. The indictment charges the defendant with betting at a game with cards, in violation-of the provisions of section 4209 of the Code, at one of the places therein prohibited. This offense is a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not less than fifty, nor more than three hundred dollars. It is a separate and distinct offense from that of flaying a,t a game with cards, denounced by section 4207 of the Code, which is punishable…
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