GRIMES v. STATE

No. 30601.

327 S.W.2d 583 (1959)

R. B. GRIMES, Scott Davis & Barney Staggner, Appellants, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied May 20, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles W. Tessmer, Dallas, on appeal only; Charles H. Dean, Plainview, and Burks & O'Connor, Lubbock, for R. B. Grimes.

Robert C. Benavides, Dallas, for Barney Staggner.

Boling & Griffith, Lubbock, for Scott Davis and Barney Staggner.

Joe L. Cox, Dist. Atty., Plainview, Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

These three appellants were tried jointly, and each convicted of the offense of keeping and exhibiting a gaming table or bank; Grimes and Staggner were assessed a punishment of three years each, and Davis' punishment was assessed at two years.

Rangers, a liquor control officer, and deputy sheriffs made a raid for illicit alcoholic beverages and found a dice game in progress in an unfurnished tenant house on the farm of one Elliott...

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