State v. Herndon

Appellant prosecutes tbis appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Boone County, convicting him of feloniously setting up and keeping a gambling device in violation of Section 4287, Revised Statutes 1929 (Sec. 4287, Mo. Stat. Ann., p. 2986). His punishment was fixed at a term of six months in the county jail and he appeals. This court has jurisdiction of the appeal because the offense is a felony.

The evidence on the part of the State tended to show the following: That in October, 1933, there was leased to appellant certain premises in Columbia consisting of a five-room house, and about…