Sanchez v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Bexar. Tried below before the Honorable W. S. Anderson. Appeal from a conviction of keeping and being interested in keeping a gambling place, etc.; penalty, two years imprisonment in the penitentiary.
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Appeal from the District Court of Bexar. Tried below before the Honorable W. S. Anderson. Appeal from a conviction of keeping and being interested in keeping a gambling place, etc.; penalty, two years imprisonment in the penitentiary. Leaving out formal parts of the indictment, the same charge in the second count thereof that “Plantón Sanchez did unlawfully and knowingly permit a building, room, and place which was then and there under the control of him, the said Plantón Sanchez, to be used as a place to bet, wager, and gamble with cards and dice and as a place where people resorted for the…
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ON REHEARING..
October 12, 1921.
LATTIMORE, Judge.
Appellant insists that the trial court should have given his special charges Nos. 1 and 2, the substance of which was that the evidence showing that he played and bet at certain games, and that he dealt or kept monte games in the premises charged to have been conducted as a gambling house, could not constitute a basis for his conviction for keeping or being interested in keeping said premises as a gambling house.
The evidence of the officers and parties who entered the alleged gaming house on the occasion charged, showed that at the time…
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