Hudson v. State

Appellants prosecute this appeal to reverse the judgment against them for the crime of gaming. .

The record shows that, on Sunday the 19th day of October, 1924, officers came upon appellants while they were engaged in a poker game in Kilgore Township, in ihe Western District of Clay County, Arkansas. The appellants promised the officers to appear before a justice of the peace in the township on the next morning to answer to the charge of gaming. On that same night an affidavit for the. arrest of the appellants, charging them with “gaming on the Sabbath day,” was sworn out before a justice of…