Case ID: ala_19/html/0551-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "DARGAN, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

FLAKE vs. THE STATE.
    1:. An indictment for'playing cards “at a public'place” is good.
    A An infirmary is a public place within the statute against gaming.
    Error to the Circuit Court of- Barbour.- Tried before the' Hon. John' D. Phelan.
    The indictment in this case w’as-for playing cards “ at a pub- - lie place.” The proof showed that the playing took place in a lower room of a certain building in Eufaula, which room with an adjoining one was used as an infirmary by defendant, who was-a physician. It was also proved that the defendant had advertised that he had established an infirmary, into which he would-receive and treat diseased negroes,-hut the particular building" in which the patients would he placed was not advertised. The court charged that the place above described was a-public place.-
    P. T. Saybe¿ for plaintiff in error.
    The AttosNey General, for the State.-
   DARGAN, C. J.

The indictment in this case is good ac cording to the case of Roquemore v. State; and we think, that-the place at which the playing took-place is a public-place within the meaning^of- the act.