Buckalew v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Chambers Circuit Gourt. Tried before Hon. James E. Cobb. Tbe appellant, L. L. Buckalew, was indicted for “ setting up or being concerned in. setting up or carrying on a lottery.”
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Appeal from Chambers Circuit Gourt. Tried before Hon. James E. Cobb. Tbe appellant, L. L. Buckalew, was indicted for “ setting up or being concerned in. setting up or carrying on a lottery.” Tbe State introduced a witness, who testified that within twelve months before the finding of tbe indictment, in this cause, and in Chambers county, Alabama, “ the defendant had a mill, and in the mill house, on the head of a flour barrel, he bad wbat the witness called a board, on which was marked, in a circle, figures from one to forty-eigbt, with a heart in the centre, fastened on a pivot with a point…
1Opinion of the CourtStone, J.
Lottery is a distribution of prizes by lot or chance. — Webster’s Dictionary; Bouvier’s Law Dictionary. There are said to be two kinds of lottery in general use. One, the Genoise, or numerical system; sometimes called the combination plan. The other, the Dutch, or class lottery ; sometimes called the single number plan. — American Cyclopsedia. In each, chances are purchased, generally by the purchase of tickets, or fractions of a ticket. Not necessary, however, that tickets should be issued. Wherever chances are sold, and the distribution of prizes determined by lot, this, it would seem, is a…
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