State v. McCarthy

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

The defendant was convicted of feloniously keeping lottery tickets for sale in violation of R. S. 21-1502.

*21It appears that in 1925, in Wyandotte county, defendant was engaged in selling, offering and keeping for sale various sorts of sealed lottery tickets, priced at 25 cents and upwards, which purported to give the purchasers a chance to win a prize of $25 or other sum up to $500 if certain results were achieved by various baseball teams in their computed weekly scores of games as printed in the sporting pages of -the daily press. The…