Reynolds v. State

SAMFORD, Judge.

The charge in this case is based upon Section 4247 of the Code of 1923 for carrying on or representing a lottery; or selling tickets in the same.

The complaint was in sufficient form to charge the defendant with an offense under the above cited Section of the Code, and was not subject to any of the demurrers interposed.

On the trial of the cause before the Judge, sitting without a jury, the State offered the testimony of witnesses tending to prove that within twelve months in Jefferson County there had been operated a lottery, or a game of like kind, in a dairy building near the…