Stubbs v. State

R. D. Stubbs and twelve other Negroes, appellants here, were convicted in a justice of the peace court upon a charge of engaging in a game of chance, namely, gambling, for money, by shooting dice. Upon appeal to the circuit court they were again convicted and have appealed to this Court.

The locus delicti was in a verdant pine grove, typical of South Mississippi, a short distance from old state highway No. 13, — a significant number since there were thirteen defendants there assembled; recalling the traditional superstition, confined not alone to the Negro Race, this ill omen should have…