People v. Taylor
New York Supreme Court
Error to Albany mayor’s court, where the defendant was indicted. The substance of the charge in the first count of the indictment was, that the defendant did vend, and sell, and furnish to divers persons unknown to the jurors aforesaid, tickets and parts of tickets, and papers purporting to be tickets and parts of tickets, of a certain lottery for the purpose of exposing money, (the name of which said lottery, and a more particular description of which, is unknown to the…
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Error to Albany mayor’s court, where the defendant was indicted. The substance of the charge in the first count of the indictment was, that the defendant did vend, and sell, and furnish to divers persons unknown to the jurors aforesaid, tickets and parts of tickets, and papers purporting to be tickets and parts of tickets, of a certain lottery for the purpose of exposing money, (the name of which said lottery, and a more particular description of which, is unknown to the jurors aforesaid;) and which lottery was not expressly authorized by law; and did then and there, in pursuance of such…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Bronson, Ch. J.
The first count- is framed on the 29th section of the lottery act, which extends to furnishing, as well as vending and selling tickets; and to papers and instruments purporting to be tickets, or parts or shares of tickets, as well as to tickets, and parts and shares of tickets. (1 R. S. 666.) The count shows that the lottery was made for an illegal *100purpose, and a sufficient reason is assigned for not giving a more particular description of it. (The People v. Taylor, ante, p. 91.) The ticket or tickets need not be set out. In the cases to which we have been…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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