Scribner v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Tarrant. Tried below before S. P. Greene, Esq., Special Judge. A fine of ten dollars was the punishment adjudged against the appellant in the court below.
1Opinion of the CourtWhite, P. J.
The indictment in this cause was returned into court on the 3d of June, 1881. It charges “ that one Wm. Scribner, in the county of Tarrant and State aforesaid, on the 10th day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, with force and arms did unlawfully play at a game of cards in a public place, contrary to the form of the statute in such cases made and provided,” etc.
A motion in arrest of judgment was made by defendant, attacking the validity of the indictment because “none of the public places specially enumerated as pub-*174lie in the statute against unlawful…
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