Dancey v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
This appeal is from a conviction for keeping and exhibiting a gaming table or bank for purposes of gaming, the punishment assessed being a fine of $25 and ten days’ imprisonment in the county jail. The information contained two counts, the first charging unlawful betting at a gaming table and bank kept for gaming purposes. The second, the unlawful keeping and exhibiting such bank.
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This appeal is from a conviction for keeping and exhibiting a gaming table or bank for purposes of gaming, the punishment assessed being a fine of $25 and ten days’ imprisonment in the county jail. The information contained two counts, the first charging unlawful betting at a gaming table and bank kept for gaming purposes. The second, the unlawful keeping and exhibiting such bank. In defendant’s motion to quash, the second ground of objection was, that “the same does not appear to have been presented by the County Attorney of this county, nor does it appear to be presented in any court having…
1Opinion of the Court
HENDERSON, Judge.
The appellant was tried on an information containing two counts, the first of which charges that appellant did unlawfully bet and wager at a gaming table and bank then and there kept for the purpose of gaming; and the second charges that the appellant did unlawfully keep and exhibit for the purpose of gaming a gaming table and bank, contrary, etc. Appellant pleaded guilty to the first count in the information, and asked that the second count be ignored, and that the jury be required to return a verdict against him on the first count, on his plea of guilty thereto. The court…
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