Colie v. State

This is an appeal by Wyndol O. Colie from a judgment entered upon a verdict of “guilty” by a jury, under a warrant charging him with accepting bets and making a book on a running race of horses in Montgomery County. Code 1939, Article 27, Section 291.

During the trial of the case, Officer Robert A. Popcke testified, over objection, that the accused on the 2nd day of November, 1948, in conversation with him, gave him the telephone number of a booking establishment where he could place “call-in bets.” He testified that this number, Michigan 6475, was written by the defendant on an envelope and…