Windsor v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Grayson. Tried below before Hon. G. P. Webb. Appeal from a conviction that appellant unlawfully accepted a bet on a horse race; penalty, a fine of $200 and thirty days imprisonment in the county jail. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.
The information charges that appellant “did then and there unlawfully engage and assist in taking and accepting from Max Price a bet of ten dolors on a horse race to be thereafter run on the tenth day of December, 1903, in the State of Louisiana,” etc. The facts are that “Max Price desired to make a bet on a horse race to be run in the city of New Orleans, Stare of Louisiana, and being then and there informed by defendant, Harry Windsor, of the various odds offered at the race track on the said day on the various horses entered in a certain race to be run on the race…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Rich v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1897
- State v. WelchSupreme Court of Alabama · 1838