JEFFERSON v. STATE

No. 34845.

364 S.W.2d 227 (1962)

Ethel Lee JEFFERSON and Debora Johnson, Appellants, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied January 2, 1963.

Second Rehearing Denied February 13, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Cutler, Houston, Pepper & Goldgar, Houston (on rehearing), for appellants.

Frank Briscoe, Dist. Atty., Carl E. F. Dally and Erwin G. Ernst, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is keeping and exhibiting a policy game; the punishment, two years in the penitentiary against each appellant.

Officer Driskell of the Houston vice squad testified that on the day in question, while armed with a search warrant, he and his fellow officer entered a certain dwelling house in the city and there found the two appellants seated at a table, and spread out before them on the table and in a box on the floor between them...

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