Case ID: ga-app_9/html/0877-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Hill, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

3688.
    Cooper v. The State.
    Decided October 23, 1911.
    Accusation of gaming; from city court of Ocilla — Judge Oxford. July 24, 1911.
    
      Mewbern <£• Meeks, for plaintiff in error.
    
      H. J. Quincey, solicitor, contra.
   Hill, C. J.

An accusation which, charges, in the alternative, that -on a certain clay the accused “did play and bet for money, or other thing of value, at a game played with cards,” is bad, and should have been quashed on special demurrer. Haley v. State, 124 Ga. 216 (52 S. E. 195).

Judgment reversed.