Lewis v. State

WOODLEY, Judge.

Appellant was convicted for the offense of keeping, for the purpose of gaming, a gaming table and bank. The jury rejected his plea for suspension of sentence, and assessed his punishment at two years’ confinement in the penitentiary.

The indictment alleged the offense to have been committed on or about June 26, 1949.

At the time the appellant went to trial, he also at that time stood charged by two other indictments with keeping and exhibiting a gaming table and bank, the same offenses as were contained originally in the indictment herein, such offenses being alleged to have…