Hopkins v. State

Willis Hopkins, Mose Reed, and Creek Kincaid were indicted for playing and betting “together for money or other things of value at a pool-table.” On the trial of Hopkins the witness introduced in behalf of the State testified : That he saw Hopkins and the other two defendants play several games of pool together, at the time and place charged in the indictment, “ the price of each game being fifteen cents, the same being five cents a cue for each player using a cue. .Under an agreement between the players, the one losing the game, that is the one putting the least number of balls in the…