Howard v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Thomas

Affirming.

The appellants, Tom and John Howard (to whom we shall hereafter refer as defendants), were jointly indicted by the grand jury of Boyd county in which they were accused of violating the provisions of section 3914b-l of our present Statutes, and it was charged that they operated a pool room and sold pools on horse races, and did other things denounced by the statute so as to constitute the offense therein created. At their trial (under their joint plea of not guilty and the separate plea by Tom Howard of “former conviction”) they were each convicted…