70 So. 950 | Ala. Ct. App. | 1916
“The offense of keeping a gaming table may be committed by a single act, or it may be one continuous in its nature, and may therefore be proved by one act, or a series of acts, showing the requisite criminal intention, by the proper measure of proof. The guilty party need not necessarily be engaged in the business of keeping such table, any more than one who keeps a restaurant, or keeps open store on Sunday contrary to law.”—Bibb v. State, 83 Ala. 91, 3 South. 714.
The defendant does not deny the fact, testified to by one of the state’s witnesses, that he was, on the occasion just before his arrest, engaged in such game at said table, and admits that he was a member of the club where the table was kept. The defendant’s motion tq exclude the evidence was properly overruled.—Brandes v. State, 10 Ala. App. 239, 65 South. 307. The
Affirmed.