State v. Cain

EOT, C.

The defendant was convicted of carrying a pistol concealed on his person and sentenced to a year in jail and to pay a fine of one hundred dollars.

Ed Drew was the proprietor of a pool hall which was upstairs over the saloon of Joe Eose in the city of Springfield. Drew had been convicted of keeping a gambling house. There was gambling of some kind going on on the night of the alleged offense. The prosecuting witness, Fred Bateman, and the defendant got into a quarrel over the ownership of a dime which was lying on the billiard table and which had been bet by the defendant in some way.…