Colbert v. State

The indictment charged Everett Colbert, Negro appellant, as follows: “The Grand Jury of Ashley County, in the name and by the authority of the State of Arkansas, accuse Everett Colbert of the crime of Keeping Gambling- House committed as follows, to-wit: The said Everett Colbert in the county and State aforesaid, on the 15th day of July, A. D., 1950, did unlawfully keep, conduct and operate a gambling- house in Violation of Title 41-2001, Ark. Stats. (1947), and against the peace and dignity of the State of Arkansas.”

Material facts appear not in dispute.

Appellants and a number of other…