Early v. State

Court of Appeals of Texas

Early v. State

5 S.W. 122, 23 Tex. Ct. App. 364, 1887 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 85

CourtCourt of Appeals of Texas

DecidedMay 18, 1887

DocketNo. 5265

StatusPublished

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Early v. State, 5 S.W. 122, 23 Tex. Ct. App. 364, 1887 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 85 (Tex. Ct. App. 1887).

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White, Presiding Judge.

By one count in the indictment appellant was charged with “ playing at a game with cards at a house for retailing spirituous liquors,” and by the other that he did “unlawfully play at a game with cards in a certain room attached to a house for retailing spirituous liquors.” A statutory offense is sufficiently charged by either of these counts. (Penal Code, arts. 409 and 410; Tummins v. The State, 18 Texas Ct. App., 13 ; Bacchus v. The State, Id., 15.) In each count the offense is made to depend upon the fact that it was committed in connection with a house for retailing spirituous liquors, and it consequently became essential to a valid conviction under one or the other of these counts to prove that the playing was done at either a house for, or in a room attached to a house for, retailing spirituous liquors.

The proof is that the playing took place in a room over a store room in which spirituous liquors were sold, but whether sold at wholesale or retail we are not informed. If at wholesale, then the fact that liquor was or was not sold in the store house would cut no figure in the matter. Again, the witness says “there was no immediate connection between the saloon where liquors were sold and the upper room where he saw the cards played.” He does not say where spirituous liquors were retailed, but in a saloon where liquors were sold. Now, does the word saloon necessarily imply that it is,—or is the word convertible with the expression,—“a house for retailing spirituous liquors?” We think not, and the authorities in effect have declared otherwise [366]*366in this State. (State v. Mansker, 36 Texas, 364; Jackson v. The State, 16 Texas Ct. App., 373).

Opinion delivered May 18, 1887.

In that the testimony does not prove the allegation in either of the counts in the indictment, the judgment is reversed and the cause remanded.

Reversed and remanded.

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White, Presiding Judge.

By one count in the indictment appellant was charged with “ playing at a game with cards at a house for retailing spirituous liquors,” and by the other that he did “unlawfully play at a game with cards in a certain room attached to a house for retailing spirituous liquors.” A statutory offense is sufficiently charged by either of these counts. (Penal Code, arts. 409 and 410; Tummins v. The State, 18 Texas Ct. App., 13 ; Bacchus v. The State, Id., 15.) In each count the offense is made to depend upon the fact that it was committed in connection with a house for retailing spirituous liquors, and it consequently became essential to a valid conviction under one or the other of these counts to prove that the playing was done at either a house for, or in a room attached to a house for, retailing spirituous liquors.

The proof is that the playing took place in a room over a store room in which spirituous liquors were sold, but whether sold at wholesale or retail we are not informed. If at wholesale, then the fact that liquor was or was not sold in the store house would cut no figure in the matter. Again, the witness says “there was no immediate connection between the saloon where liquors were sold and the upper room where he saw the cards played.” He does not say where spirituous liquors were retailed, but in a saloon where liquors were sold. Now, does the word saloon necessarily imply that it is,—or is the word convertible with the expression,—“a house for retailing spirituous liquors?” We think not, and the authorities in effect have declared otherwise [366]*366in this State. (State v. Mansker, 36 Texas, 364; Jackson v. The State, 16 Texas Ct. App., 373).

Opinion delivered May 18, 1887.

In that the testimony does not prove the allegation in either of the counts in the indictment, the judgment is reversed and the cause remanded.

Reversed and remanded.

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