State v. Edwards

This is an indictment for conspiracy to violate the gambling laws. After a trial before a justice of the superior court sitting with a jury, two of the defendants were found guilty and their motion for a new trial was denied. The case is before us on their bill of exceptions to such denial and to numerous other rulings made before and during the trial.

The indictment charges that Elmer L. Edwards, Zigmund Micek and Vartan Hovanesian on October 16, 1953, and on divers other dates between August 1 and October 17, 1953, at Pawtucket in the county of Providence, “did unlawfully contrive,…