Spears v. State

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING.

LATTIMORE, Judge.

In his written motion and oral argument appellant submits, first, that evidence of a single gambling transaction is not enough upon which to base a conviction for keeping a house for the purpose of gaming; also that such evidence is not sufficient to support a conviction for keeping a house as a place where people resort to gamble, etc. On the point thus made we observe that in the case of Sanchez v. State, 90 Tex. Crim. Rep. 159, we said that the law would be violated by one who kept promises for the purpose of being used as a place to which people…