Case Name: John Dailey v. The State
Court: Texas Courts of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1889-05-11
Citations: 27 Tex. Ct. App. 569
Docket Number: No. 6181
Parties: John Dailey v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Court of Appeals Reports
Volume: 27
Pages: 569–569

Head Matter:
No. 6181.
John Dailey v. The State.
Opinion delivered May 11, 1889.
1. Playing Cards, Etc.—Information.—A “gin” is not one of the places or houses designated by the statute as a “public place.” To charge the offense of playing cards in a public place, “to wit, a gin,” the information should have charged the facts which constituted the gin a public place.
•2. Same—Pact Case.—The information charged that the accused played the cards in Starkey’s gin. The proof was that he played cards in a fence corner, in a pasture and in a room near Starkey’s gin, but not at the gin. Held, insufficient to support a conviction.
Appeal from the District Court of San Saba. Tried below before the Hon. A. W. Moursund
The penalty assessed against the appellant was a fine of ten •dollars.
The opinion discloses the nature of the case.
No brief .for the appellant.
W. L. Davidson, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.

Opinion:
Willson, Judge.
This conviction is not supported by the evidence in the record. Defendant is charged in the indictment with playing cards at a public place, to wit? at Starkey's gin. It was not proved that he played cards at said gin.
Furthermore, the indictment is bad. A gin is not one of the places or houses designated by the statute as public; wherefore it was necessary to allege in the indictment the facts which made it a public place. (Tummins v. The State, 18 Texas Ct. App., 12.)
The judgment is reversed and the prosecution is dismissed.
Reversed and dismissed.