Holtzclaw v. State
Holtzclaw v. State
Opinion of the Court
There were two counts in the indictment. In the first, appellant was charged with playing at a game Avith cards, “ in a certain store house which Avas then and there occupied by one E. S. Cochran.” And in the second, that he “ did play at a game Avith cards in a certain room over E. S. Cochran’s grocery.” The playing was shoAyn to have taken place in an unoccupied room in the second story of a building, in one room of the lower story of which Cochran kept a family grocery and provision store. There was no connection shown between the room occupied by Cochran and that in which the playing occurred. The contrary seems to have been the fact. The entrance to the rooms in the upper story was by an outside flight of stairs. The witness for the State testified that the building was owned by a third party, and that it was “ his understanding that the room in which appellant played was not rented by any one.” It was not pretended that the room was a public place, unless the partial occupation of the building by Cochran as a grocery store gave it this character. It cannot be said that it did, if it Avas in no way connected with or
Because the charge of the court was erroneous, the judgment is reversed, and the cause remanded.
Reversed and remanded.
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- Eli Holtzclaw v. State
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