Jefferson v. State

364 S.W.2d 227 (1962)

Ethel Lee JEFFERSON and Debora Johnson, Appellants,

v.

The STATE of Texas, Appellee

No. 34845.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

October 24, 1962.

Rehearing Denied January 2, 1963.

Second Rehearing Denied February 13, 1963.

John Cutler, Houston, Pepper & Goldgar, Houston (on rehearing), for appellants.

Frank Briscoe, Dist. Atty., Carl E. F. Dally and Erwin G. Ernst, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

MORRISON, Judge.

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