Case Name: Robikson vs. The State of Georgia
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1886-03-23
Citations: 77 Ga. 101
Docket Number: 
Parties: Robikson vs. The State of Georgia.
Judges: 
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 77
Pages: 101–102

Head Matter:
Robikson vs. The State of Georgia.
1. The evidence required, defendant’s conviction for gaming. The boy who waited on the owner of the chip's brought him two stacks; two of those with whom he played had paid for their chips, and though the police broke up the game before he had paid for his, yet when he won some of theirs or lost some of his to them, he gambled by betting at the game of poker. That he got them on credit is apparent from these facts, and that they represented money is proved by two witnesses.
2. Any time within two years the state may prove that he played the game of poker at thi^ place of gambling. It is not confined to the particular day charged in the accusation.
3. The charge of the court is the law of the case; and if it were not, as the evidence required the verdict, error in the charge would not operate to give the defendant a new trial, because another trial could not change the result.
Judgment affirmed. (Head-notes by the court.)
March 23, 1886.
The head-notes in the following three cases contain the entire opinion of the court in each.

Opinion:
Jackson, Chief Justice.
[Robinson was tried in the city court of Atlanta upon an accusation charging him with gaming, and was found guilty. He moved for a new trial, oh the following among other grounds :
(1.) Because the court refused to charge as follows: " The chips represented what was actually paid for them, and if the defendant did not pay anything for them they had no value. If they were bought on credit, they were not valuable, as it was an illegal contract which could not be enforced."
(2.) Because the court charged as follows : "A thing is a thing of value either when it has some pecuniary value, or can be turned into money or exchanged for something else which has a pecuniary value. Checks or chips, which represented money and are payable in money, are things of value in the sense of the law; and this would be true whether the owner of such checks or chips had paid for them or not. If they belonged to him and were payable in money, they would be things of value, though he had bought them on a credit."
(3.) Because the verdict was contrary to law and evidence.
The motion was overruled, and the defendant excepted.]