Grimes v. State

MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

These three appellants were tried jointly, and each convicted of the offense of keeping and exhibiting a gaming table or bank; Grimes and Staggner were assessed a punishment of three years each, and Davis’ punishment was assessed at two years.

Rangers, a liquor control officer, and deputy sheriffs made a raid for illicit alcoholic beverages and found a dice game in progress in an unfurnished tenant house on the farm of one Elliott in Hale County. There were some nine or ten players in the game, eight of whom testified for the state in this prosecution. The officers…