Cross v. People
Supreme Court of Colorado
Error to the Criminal Court of Arapahoe County. The indictment charges plaintiffs in error with promoting, advertising, and carrying on a lottery and gift enterprise in the city of Denver, county of Arapahoe and State of Colorado.
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Error to the Criminal Court of Arapahoe County. The indictment charges plaintiffs in error with promoting, advertising, and carrying on a lottery and gift enterprise in the city of Denver, county of Arapahoe and State of Colorado. The cause was beard at the September term, 1888, before a jury, upon the following agreed statement of facts: “It is agreed, that on the 27th day of June, A. D. 1888, in the city of Denver, county of Arapahoe and state of Colorado, the defendants were engaged in the business of selling and disposing of shoes, boots and such-like articles of wear; that there had been…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Goddard
The principal question, and the only one of practical importance to the people and the plaintiffs in error, is presented by the fourth and fifth assignments of error; and, since it is decisive of the case, it is unnecessary to notice the other errors assigned.
The decision of this case depends upon the meaning to be given to the terms “ lottery and gift enterprise ” used in section 2196 of the General Statutes, page 677; and whether the facts admitted constitute a violation of that section.
*324The term “lottery ” is said to have no technical signification in the law; but to ascertain its meaning…
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