Johnson v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Error to the Circuit Court of Barbour. Tried before the Hon. John D. Phelan. cited The State v. Terry -et al. 4 Dev. & Bat. 186, and Commonwealth v. Saunders, 5 ¡Leigh, 751.
1Opinion of the CourtChilton, J.
The defendant was indicted and convicted of playing at cards under the 8th section of the 6th chapter of the penal code, which provides that “ if any person shall play at •any tavern, inn, store-house for retailing spirituous liquors, or house or place where spirituous liquors are retailed or given away,” &e., such person, on conviction, shall be fined, &c. The indictment contains two counts; one charges the playing at a .store house for retailing spirituous liquors, the other count is for •playing in a place where such liquors were retailed.
The proof was that the proprietors of the…
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