Public house
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
An inn or tavern; a house for the entertainment of the public, or for the entertainment of all Who come lawfully and pay reguiarly.
3 Brewst 344.
A place of public resort, particularly for purposes of drinking or gaming. In a more general sense, any house made public by the occupation carried on in it and the implied invitation to the public to enter, such as inns, taverns, drinking saloons, gambling houses, and perhaps also shops and stores.
See Cole v. State, 28 Tex. App. 536, 13 S. W. 859, 19 Am. St. Rep. 856; State v. Barns, 25 Tex. 655 ; Arnold v. State, 29 Ain. 50; Lafferty v. State, 41 Tex. Cr. It. 606, 56 S. W. 623; Bentley v. State, 32 Ala. 599; Brown v. State, 27 Ala..50.