Pullen v. State

The plaintiff in error was brought to trial in the city court of Wrightsville, upon an accusation in which he, James H. Wright, and Jim Wright were jointly charged with the offense of “ gambling.” The trial resulted in the conviction of Pullen, who brought the case here for review by a bill of exceptions in which complaint is made, (1) that the court below overruled a demurrer to the accusation, and (2) that his motion for a new trial was also overruled. The first of these assignments of error was not insisted upon before this court. As to the second, we have reached the conclusion that a new…