Scribner v. State

Citations

• 12 Tex. Ct. App. 173

Syllabus

<p>Plating Cabds in a Public Place.—Prior to the act of March 26,1881, “ to prescribe the requisites of indictments in certain cases,” an indictment for playing cards in a public place was fatally defective unless it either charged that the playing was done at a place or house designated by the statute as public, or alleged facts sufficient to show that the place or house was public.</p>