Metcalf v. State

Metcalf and Calhonn were convicted of larceny by trick in “playing a game named Three Card Monte”. Those who lost snbstaintial sums of money in playing this game with the defendants were three soldiers stationed at Fort Campbell. The insistence made on this appeal by these defendants is that the evidence is insufficient, as a matter of law, to sustain the conviction.

The evidence justifies the conclusion that gamblers, more or less professional, on the pay-day of the soldiers at Fort Campbell arranged to pass the entrance gate of this military post at a time when these soldiers were leaving…