Case ID: ga-app_36/html/0771-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Luke, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

18032.
    Ellis v. The State.
    Gaming, 27 C. J. p. 1037, n. 1, 3, 4.
   Luke, J.

Evidence that the defendant and another negro, employees of the Atlantic Ice and Coal Corporation, were on their knees in the gear-room of that corporation, with a coat lying on the floor between them; that the defendant was shuffling cards; that when a policeman entered the room the other negro grabbed a number of pieces of silver money from the said coat, and that a third negro was standing with his hands on his knees apparently observing the proceedings, is sufficient to sustain the defendant’s conviction of gaming. Frost v. State, 120 Ga. 311 (47 S. E. 901); Welsh v. State, 6 Ga. App. 783 (65 S. E. 815); Simmons v. State, 17 Ga. App. 288 (86 S. E. 657); Griffin v. State, 2 Ga. App. 534 (58 S. E. 781); Washington v. State, 24 Ga. App. 65 (100 S. E. 31); Schley v. State, 25 Ga. App. 549 (103 S. E. 799); Roberts v. State, 26 Ga. App. 66 (105 S. E. 707); Griffin v. State, 5 Ga. App. 43 (62 S. E. 685).

Decided May 11, 1927.

Gaming; from city court of Americus — Judge Harper. February 25, 1927.

Zach Childers, for plaintiff in error.

T. O. Marshall, solicitor, contra.

Judgment affirmed.

Broyles, C. J., and Bloodworth, J., concur.