Edgemon v. State

These defendants were convicted under .a two count indictment charging them with keeping and exhibiting gambling devices and with keeping a gambling house. On each count, they were fined $500.00 and sentenced to eleven months and twenty-nine days in the workhouse, but all but one month of the workhouse sentence was suspended. These convictions will be affirmed but the judgments are modified so as to impose fines and sentences on only one count of the indictment.

The defendants were the proprietors of a confectionery in Johnson City known as Jay’s Place. One A. M. Butler, who was investigating…