State v. Roybal

LUJAN, Chief Justice.

The defendants as appellants before this court complain of the sentences imposed upon them by the district court of San Miguel County, following their conviction, by a jury, of the crimes of operating a game of chance for money and permitting a game of chance to be operated on premises owned and in their possession and control.

The circumstances giving rise to the prosecution were these:

Pen Winston, District Captain of the New Mexico State Police, testified, substantially, as follows: That he had supervision over San Miguel, Harding, Union, Colfax and Mora counties; that…