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        "text": "McCulloch, C. J.\nAppellant was tried, and convicted, for the offense of vagrancy as defined by the following statute:\n. \u201cAll keepers or exhibitors of any gaming table, bank or other gambling device, and all persons who travel or remain in steamboats, or go about from place to place for the purpose of gaming, shall bel deemed and treated as vagrants.\u201d Section 2068, Kirby\u2019s Digest.\nThe particular feature of the statute upon which the charge against appellant was predicated is the latter clause of the section which defines persons to be vagrants who \u201cgo about from place to place for the purpose of gaming. \u2019 \u2019\nThe chief contention of counsel for appellant is that this language refers to banking games, and not to gaming of any other kind. The case of Tully v. State, 88 Ark. 411, is relied on, where we held that the gambling device mentioned in' another section of the same statute referred to banking games.\nThe first clause of the section doubtless should be interpreted as referring to banking games which constitute gambling devices, but the last clause of the section is disconnected from the preceding clauses, and is broad enough to include all persons who \u201cgo about from place to place for the purpose of gaming,\u201d whether the purpose is to participate in banking games or in other kinds of gambling. Our conclusion is that this is the proper construction of the statute.\nIt is next contended that the testimony is not sufficient to sustain the conviction. But, after careful consideration, we are of the opinion that the evidence warranted the jury in finding that the defendant had no other means of support, and that he went about from place to place in Polk. County and other adjoining counties in that part of the State for the purpose of gambling.\nOne of the witnesses introduced by the State was permitted, over appellant\u2019s objection, to testify as to the amount of money he lost in one of the games in which he participated with appellant.\nThis was immaterial, but we are unable to see that any prejudice resulted to appellant in admitting the testimony.\nThe court also permitted the State to prove games participated in by appellant in other counties, and this was done over appellant\u2019s objection.\nWe think such testimony was competent, not for the purpose of proving the commission of the same offense in another county, but to show the purpose of his wanderings, whether to pursue a lawful avocation, or to habitually engage in the pursuit of gambling.\nJudgment affirmed.",
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        "author": "McCulloch, C. J."
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    "attorneys": [
      "Pole McPhetrige, for appellant.",
      "Wm. L. Moose, Attorney General, and Jno. P. Streepey, Assistant, for appellee."
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    "head_matter": "Davis v. State.\nOpinion delivered October 6, 1913.\n1. Vagrancy\u2014gaming\u2014construction of statute.\u2014Kirby\u2019s Digest, \u00a7 2068, held to apply to all persons who \u201cgo about from place to place for tbe purpose of gaming,\u201d whether for the purpose of participating in banking games or in other kinds of gambling. (Page 342.)\n2. Vagrancy\u2014gaming\u2014sufficiency of evidence.\u2014Evidence held sufficient to show defendant guilty of vagrancy under Kirby\u2019s Digest, \u00a7 2068. (Page 342.)\n3. Vagrancy\u2014gaming\u2014evidence of acts in other counties.-\u2014Where defendant is charged with vagrancy, under Kirby\u2019s Digest, \u00a7 2068, evidence of games participated in by him in other counties is competent to show the purpose of defendant\u2019s wandering about, whether to pursue a lawful vocation or to habitually engage in the pursuit of gaming. (Page 343.)\nAppeal from Polk Circuit Court; J. T. Cowling, Judge;\naffirmed.\nPole McPhetrige, for appellant.\n1. The indictment is not sufficient. Section 2068, Kirby\u2019s Digest, contemplates and refers to banking games only. 88 Ark. 411. The conjunction \u201cor\u201d would not constitute the clause, \u201cwho travel about from place to place, \u2019 \u2019 etc., a sufficient nor independent offense. 8 Q. B. Div. 447; 10 la. 448; Id. 593; 46 la. 670; 138 N. Y. 151; 2 Lewis\u2019 Sutherland, Stat. Con.., \u00a7 397.\nThere is but slight difference between section 1732, construed in Tully v. State, 88 Ark. 411, and section 2068, under which this indictment was presented. The t-wo acts are in pari materia, and should be construed together. Lewis \u2019 Sutherland, Stat. Con. 845, 846, and cases cited; 60 Ark. 128.\n2. It was error to admit testimony to show gambling games played in another county. 30 Ark. 41.\nWm. L. Moose, Attorney General, and Jno. P. Streepey, Assistant, for appellee."
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