Parker v. State

Citations

• 13 Tex. Ct. App. 213
• 1 Tex. L. R. 614
• 1882 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 210

Syllabus

<p>1. Gaming Tables —Indictment which alleges that the accused “did unlawfully keep and exhibit a certain bank and table for the purpose of gaming ” is sufficient to charge the offense of exhibiting a gaming table as defined by the Penal Code.</p> <p>2. Same.—By express legislation (see Acts of the Seventeenth Legislature, chapter 53), the keeping or exhibiting a table for the purpose of gaming, notwithstanding such table may be licensed by law, and the license tax paid, is an offense against the law of this State; and it is likewise an offense to bet or wager on such table. Reeves v. The State, 12 Texas Court of Appeals, 199, cited and approved.</p>