Case Name: Dick Hale v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1905-12-13
Citations: 49 Tex. Crim. 105
Docket Number: No. 3365
Parties: Dick Hale v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 49
Pages: 105–105

Head Matter:
Dick Hale v. The State.
No. 3365.
Decided December 13, 1905.
Gaming—Insufficiency of Evidence.
See opinion for evidence held to be insufficient to support a conviction of the offense of unlawfully playing at a game of cards.
Appeal from the County Court of Trinity. Tried below before Hon. C. H. Crow.
Appeal from a conviction of unlawfully playing at a game of cards; penalty, a fine of $10.
The opinion states the case.
Ho brief for appellant has reached the hands of the Reporter.
Howard Martin, Assistant Attorney-General, for the State.

Opinion:
BROOKS, Judge.
Appellant was charged with playing a game of cards, and his punishment assessed at a fine of $10. There is but one question necessary to be considered in this record. The first witness for the State shows that he went to the place where the indictment alleged appellant played the game of cards, but he did not see him play any at all; that appellant was in the room, may have been sitting around the table or in the window. The sheriff testified that he saw appellant sitting around the table, and he had some cards in his hand, holding them up as if in a game. This is all the testimony. The evidence is not sufficient to support the conviction. The judgment is reversed and the cause remanded.
Reversed and remanded.