Jefferson v. State

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is keeping and exhibiting a policy game; the punishment, two years in the penitentiary against each appellant.

Officer Driskell of the Houston vice squad testified that on the day in question, while armed with a search warrant, he and his fellow officer entered a certain dwelling house in the city and there found the two appellants seated at a table, and spread out before them on the table and in a box on the floor between them he saw certain policy *228books, slips and a sum of money. Also in the room, but not seated at the table, were eight colored men, a Latin…