Dove v. State

1. The court instructed the jury in part as follows: “ ‘In this case, Henry Dove is charged with the offense of misdemeanor, for that the said accused on the 20th day of December, 1947, in the county aforesaid,’ that is Lowndes County, ‘did then and there unlawfully, and with force and arms, keep and maintain, employ and carry on a certain scheme and device for the hazarding of money, and other things of value, said scheme and device being called and known as a slot machine, and a galloping dominoes, and a marble machine, and a numbers machine, and track-odds, all of said schemes and devices…