Waters v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the district court of Tillman county on a charge of robbery with firearms, and his punishment fixed by the court at twenty-five years in the state penitentiary.

The evidence of the state is that on the 8th day of January, 1928, a number of negroes and some white men were in a small house about a mile and a half east of Davidson in Tillman county, and that they had gathered there for the purpose of playing poker and shooting craps; that while the poker game was in progress, with $19 in the pot, the defendant and Allie Warren…