Fiorella v. State

PRICE, Judge.

The defendant was convicted of being a vagrant, as defined in subsection 11 .of Section 437, Title 14, Code of Alabama 1940, in that, “he was the keeper ■ or proprietor of a gambling house, * *

The house was described as a house situated in Shelby County, Alabama, located west of the old Birmingham-Montgomery paved highway, and being the first house south of the Cahaba River, said place having been formerly known as the “McCoy place.”

Carl Crump, a police officer of Columbiana, testified that in 1955 he had a deputy’s commission for Shelby County. Around the first part of December…