MacHen v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Hardin. Tried below before the Hon. H. F. Tickers. Appeal from a conviction of conducting a public gaming house; penalty, a fine of $26 and twenty days confinement in the county jail. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
RAMSEY, Judge.
Appellant was charged in the County Court of Hardin County with the offense of conducting a public gambling house, in violation of law, and on trial was convicted.
The ease must be reversed for many reasons. The only evidence admitted tending to establish the guilt of appellant was that it was a matter of general repute in the vicinity where he lived that he was the keeper of what is known as the Sacerrac saloon, and that gambling had frequently been going on at this place. Unless corroboration may be found in the fact that appellant had obtained internal revenue license as a…
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