Copeland v. State

Ed. F. McFaddiN, Associate Justice.

Appellant was convicted of keeping a gambling bouse in violation of § 41-2001, Ark. Stats. His motion for new trial contains thirteen assignments wbicb be has grouped and argues under the four topics now to be discussed.

I. Motion For Directed Verdict. This necessitates a review of some of the evidence. The Sheriff of St. Francis County obtained a warrant to search a gambling bonse ¡known as “The Groves”; and executed the warrant one night about ten o’clock. Appellant, Copeland, opened the door when informed of the warrant. Approximately seventeen persons…