Freeman v. State

David Freeman was convicted on an accusation of gaming. The evidence given upon his trial, briefly stated, was as follows: Jackson, the chief of police, having heard that certain negroes contemplated .meeting at the house of one Nath Neal at night to play “skin,” slipped up to this house and, peering in, saw seven or eight negroes sitting on the floor in a ring. He testified: “The defendant was lying down on his stomach and elbows, with his face towards or fronting the ring where they were all sitting. I can not say that the defendant David Freeman was playing cards. I saw Nath Neal shuffling…