On the trial of all indictments for gambling or gaming or operating a bucket-shop or dealing in contracts commonly called 'futures,' the state shall not be confined in the proof to a single violation, but under the indictment charging a single offense may give in evidence any one or more offenses of the same character committed anterior to the day laid in the indictment and not barred by the statute of limitations; but in such case, after conviction or acquittal on the merits, the accused shall not be again liable to prosecution for any offense of the same character committed anterior to the day laid in the indictment.Codes, 1857, ch. 64, § 33, art. 148; 1871, § 2611; 1880, § 2857; 1892, § 1431; 1906, § 1504; Hemingway's 1917, § 1262; 1930, § 1285; 1942, § 2528.
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