Varner v. State

The plaintiffs in error were convicted of the offense of gaming, and their bills of exceptions raise only the question whether the verdict is contrary to law because without any evidence to support it. The evidence as applicable'to each one of the plaintiffs in error, substantially stated, is as follows: The sheriff of Spalding county, with two policemen of the City of Griffin, went to the house of one of the defendants, Jim Varner, between twelve and1 one o’clock at night. The door was closed and the windows were pulled down and the curtains drawn. The keyhole was stuffed with paper, and the…