Wardlow v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Falls. Tried below before the Hon. E. C. Stuart, County Judge. The opinion and the head-notes sufficiently disclose the case so far as the rulings are affected by the facts. The case was submitted to the court upon the facts as well as the law, a jury being waived, and the appellant was found guilty and adjudged to pay a fine of $10 and all costs.
1Opinion of the Court
White, Presiding Judge.
The charge in the indictment is that defendant did “unlawfully bet at a certain gaming bank, to wit, a monte bank, which was then and there used for the purpose of gaming,” etc.
The indictment is brought under article 364, Penal Code, as amended by the general laws of the regular session of the 17th Legislature, March 5, 1881, p. 17, which reads: “Art. 364. If any person shall bet or wager at any gaming table or bank, or pigeon hole or jenny find table, or nine or ten pin alley, such as are mentioned in the six preceding articles, or shall bet or wager any money or thing…
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