Court Opinion

ID: 4907591
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-09-03 05:59:53.66616+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:13:11.622628
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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.