Sheppard v. State

The appellant, C. L. Sheppard, and Horace Grimsley were tried and convicted under an accusation which charged that they “did unlawfully keep and maintain a gaming house and did in a certain place, to wit, in a certain house located at the New Yorker Club on Lathrop Avenue in Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia, occupied by him [them?] permit, to wit, ft. E. Smith and others whose names are unknown, with his [their?] knowledge to come together and play for *673money at a certain game for the hazarding of money, said scheme being a game of dice and known as craps.” It appears from the evidence: that…