Bell v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appellant was indicted for unlawfully keeping and exhibiting for the purpose of gaming a gaming table and bank, and at his trial, the cause having been submitted to the court without a jury, he was convicted, and his punishment assessed at a fine of $25 and ten days imprisonment in the county jail.
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Appellant was indicted for unlawfully keeping and exhibiting for the purpose of gaming a gaming table and bank, and at his trial, the cause having been submitted to the court without a jury, he was convicted, and his punishment assessed at a fine of $25 and ten days imprisonment in the county jail. The facts proved on the trial were: That the defendant, John Bell, in Donley County, Texas, on the 1st day of August, 1892, did sit by the side of a certain table, and have on that table a sum of money, to-wit, about $15; also two dice cubes, with six sides each, and having dots on those six sides…
1Opinion of the Court
ON MOTION BY THE STATE FOR REHEARING.
SIMKINS, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of unlawfully keeping and exhibiting a gaming table and bank, and his punishment assessed at a fine of 825 and ten days imprisonment in jail, from which he appeals.
Testing the facts of this case by the leading elements of a gaming table and bank, as laid down in Stearnes’ case, 21 Texas, 698, we think the game of craps, as exhibited by appellant, was a gaming table, as defined by articles 358, 359, et seq., Penal Code. It was a betting game. The table was specially prepared for the game, being of a certain form, and…
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- Stearnes v. StateTexas Supreme Court · 1858
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