Houghton v. State

Moore, Associate Justice.

The appellant was indicted at the March term, 1873, of the District Court of William*137son county, for “ unlawfully keeping and exhibiting a certain gaming device called ten-pins, on which money was then and there bet.”

The evidence upon which the appellant was convicted of the offense of which he is charged by the bill of indictment was his admission, made, it seems, from the statement of facts on the trial, that he “ had been engaged for eleven months just prior to the finding of the indictment in keeping a ten-pin alley, and during that time money had been bet on the…