Court Opinion

ID: 6519823
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-19 18:30:03.045642+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:55:07.196836
License: Public Domain

McOLELLAN, O. J.
Within the meaning of section 4792 of the Code, a place in the yard or curtilage of a private house, forty feet away and open to observation from a public highway — so near and so open that persons traveling the highway can see card or dice playing thereat — is abstractly and per se a public place, and to be so declared by the court as matter of law. The circuit court did not err in giving the charge excepted to by the defendant. — Ford v. State, 123 Ala. 81; Franklin v. State, 91 Ala. 23; Henderson v. State, 59 Ala. 89.
Affirmed.