Holtzclaw v. State

There were two counts in the indictment. In the first, appellant was charged with playing at a game Avith cards, “ in a certain store house which Avas then and there occupied by one E. S. Cochran.” And in the second, that he “ did play at a game Avith cards in a certain room over E. S. Cochran’s grocery.” The playing was shoAyn to have taken place in an unoccupied room in the second story of a building, in one room of the lower story of which Cochran kept a family grocery and provision store. There was no connection shown between the room occupied by Cochran and that in which the playing…