State v. Gaines

HAWTHORNE, Justice.

Appellants, Walter Gaines and John Gaines, were charged in a bill of information with the unlawful possession of narcotic drugs, to-wit, six tablets of codeine and four tablets of morphine, tried before a jury, adjudged guilty, and sentenced to a term of 10 years’ imprisonment in the state penitentiary. From these convictions and sentences they have appealed.

Several bills of exception were taken during the trial, but all of these have been abandoned except Bill of Exception No. 7, upon which appellants rely for reversal of the convictions and sentences. According to this…