State v. Justus

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, C. J.:

A complaint was filed before a justice of the peace charging appellants jointly with running, operating and maintaining a gambling house, and setting up and maintaining gambling devices in it, and further charging appellants with gaming in a common gambling house, and with gambling. At a preliminary hearing in the justice court the state introduced its evidence, and then the appellants filed a motion to discharge them on the ground of insufficiency of the evidence. After the argument of this motion the justice announced an adjournment…