Martin v. State
Alabama Court of Appeals
Appeal from Montgomery City Court. Heard before Hon. Armstead Brown. Reese Martin was convicted of keeping a gaming table, and he appeals. ■ The exceptions to evidence sufficiently appear in the ■opinion of the court.
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Appeal from Montgomery City Court. Heard before Hon. Armstead Brown. Reese Martin was convicted of keeping a gaming table, and he appeals. ■ The exceptions to evidence sufficiently appear in the ■opinion of the court. The following charges were refused to the defendant: “(2) The court charges the jury .that if from all the evidence in the case you have a reasonable doubt as to. whether or not Reese Martin, or some one else, kept, exhibited, or was interested or concerned in keeping or exhibiting a gaming table, then you must acquit the defendant. (3) The court charges the jury that if, from…
1Opinion of the Court
de GRAFFENRIED, J.
The defendant was tried on an indictment, framed under section 6985 of the Code of 1907, charging him. with ^keeping, exhibiting, or being connected in keeping or exhibiting a gaming table for *178gaming,” was convicted, and sentenced to the peniten-. tiary for six months.
The legal evidence in the case, as contained in the bill of exceptions, if believed, showed beyond a reasonable doubt that the room in which the table is alleged to have been kept was, at some time during the month of December before the finding of the indictment, a gambling-place, and, as the use of the table…
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