Griffin v. State

The defendant was accused of gaming. The evidence showed that he was in company with others, some of whom were undoubtedly engaged in playing and betting at cards for money. Upon the approach of the chief of police of Fitzgerald, and an assistant, who presented a pistol and called to the negroes “to hold up,” the defendant incontinently fled, and the chief of police tore the defendant’s shirt in the struggle to retain the prisoner. The defendant was convicted. A fact can be proved by circumstantial evidence as well as by direct proof. Gaming is one of those offenses which ordinarily must be…