Haines v. State
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Accusation of gaming; from city court of Wrightsville—Judge Blount. February 23, 1918.
1Opinion of the CourtBloodworth, J.
The evidence in this case is almost exactly like that in Frost v. State, 120 Ga. 311 (47 S. E. 901), in which the Supreme Court said: “The defendant was indicted for the offense of playing and betting' at cards. The evidence disclosed that in a certain house one of the persons named in the indictment was lying on the. floor, supported on his elbows, with his head from under the bed, shuffling a deck of cards. The others were arranged around in a circle, in the center of which was thirty or forty cents in nickels. The defendant'was included among those who were in the circle, and was on his…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Frost v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1904
- Freeman v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1917