Davis v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Ellis. Tried below before Hon. J. C. Smith, County Judge. Appeal from a conviction for playing cards on Sunday; penalty, a fine of $20. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
HENDERSON, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of unlawfully playing cards in an incorporated city on Sunday, and fined $20; hence this appeal. Appellant filed a plea of former conviction in the city court. The plea contains all the proceedings, showing said conviction. The affidavit on which said conviction was had, in the charging part, alleged that “said Kid Davis did then and there unlawfully play at a game of cards, in a public place, to-wit: a gambling house, in violation of the city ordinances of Ennis, contrary to the form of the statute in such cases made and provided, and against the…
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