Coleman v. State

Tbe plaintiffs in error were indicted and convicted of “playiny cards at a public place.” Upon tbe trial it appeared, that tbe playing took place in a room over a vacant store, wbicb was occupied by several young men as a bedroom; that they frequently invited their acquaintances there for tbe purpose of playing, but no one bad tbe right to come without being invited by some one of tbe occupants of tbe room; that their invitations extended to their friends and *52acquaintances only, and that they did not intend to make tbeir room public, but considered it their private bed room. It was further…