Miller v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Criminal Court of Dallas. Tried before Hon. Geo. H. Craig. The opinion states the case. A gaming table is defined by Webster to be “a table appropriated to gaming,” and by the witnesses examined in the lower court to be a game whose proprietor is the banker, and against whom and whose bank the bets are madet The second section of the act of 1812, Aikin’s Dig. 210, prohibited the keeping, &c., of any gaming table, commonly called At B. C., or E. O., or…
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Appeal from the Criminal Court of Dallas. Tried before Hon. Geo. H. Craig. The opinion states the case. A gaming table is defined by Webster to be “a table appropriated to gaming,” and by the witnesses examined in the lower court to be a game whose proprietor is the banker, and against whom and whose bank the bets are madet The second section of the act of 1812, Aikin’s Dig. 210, prohibited the keeping, &c., of any gaming table, commonly called At B. C., or E. O., or Boulette, Eowley Powley, or Eouge and Noir, or any faro bank, or any other gaming table of the same or like kind, or of any…
1Opinion of the CourtPeck, C. J.
The appellant, defendant below, was indicted in the criminal court of Dallas county, for keeping or exhibiting a gaming table for gaming, or being interested or concerned in the keeping or exhibition thereof.
*125The indictment was preferred under section 3621, R. C., which is as follows, to-wit: “ Any person who keeps, ex- “ hibits, or is interested or concerned in keeping or exhibiting, any table for gaming, of whatsoever name, kind or “ description, not regularly licensed under the laws of this ■“State, must, on conviction, be fined not less than one “ hundred, nor more than one thousand…
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