Harvey v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

— The conviction is for keeping a gaming house; punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of two years.

The count in the indictment upon which the conviction rests reads thus: “ . . . did then and there unlawfully keep and was then and there interested in keeping a building and room there situate for the purpose of being used as a place to bet and wager and gamble with cards then and there played, and did then and there knowingly permit said property and premises to be used as a place where people resorted to gamble, bet and wager upon games…