Hughes v. State

Byron Hughes and Frank Lowe, referred to herein as defendants, have appealed from a conviction of feloniously operating a gaming house, their punishment being fixed at a fine of $200 and a jail sentence of eleven months and twenty-nine days.

Defendants operated a night club in Tipton County on IT. S. Highway No. 51 just north of the Shelby County line. Its name was “Little Peabody.” It had been in operation about six months when between ten-thirty and eleven o’clock on the night of May &, 1939, 0. J. West, Chief of the State Highway Patrolmen for West Tennessee, together with five members of…