Elliott v. State

McCORD, Judge.

On information charging gaming appellant was tried and convicted and his punishment assessed at a fine of $15. He appeals to this court and aslcs for a reversal on the ground that the information charges no offense against the law in that he is charged with unlawfully playing at a game with cards at a certain place on the Little Wichita River near a fish trap in the pasture of one W. H. Myers and about four miles west of Henrietta, Clay County, Texas, the same not then and there being a private residence occupied by a family contrary to the law, etc. We are of opinion that the…