Smith v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Tarrant. Tried below before Hon.. W. D. Harris, County Judge. The opinion discloses the case. The penalty assessed against each of the defendants was a fine of twenty-five dollars and confinement in the-, county jail for ten days.
1Opinion of the Court
White, Presiding Judge.
Appellants were tried and convicted under an indictment for unlawfully keeping and exhibiting, for the purpose-of gaming, a gaming table and bank. Defendants had paid the State and county tax and taken out license on their pool and billiard tables, and the games played, and for the playing of which they have been convicted, were games of pool played by parties with the understanding that-whoever of the players lost the game would pay to the proprietors five-cents for each cue that had been used in the game. The proprietors did not play in the game, there was no dealer…
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