Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas January 25, 1939, No. 20134. (Lewis v. State)

Morrow, Presiding Judge.

The conviction is for keeping a gambling house; penalty assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for two years.

The prosecution is based upon Article 625, P. C., which denounces as felony the keeping of “any premises, building, room or place for the purpose of being used as a place to bet or wager, or to gamble with cards, dice, or dominoes, etc.