Lewis v. State

The defendant Lewis was charged with the offense of “keeping, maintaining, and carrying on a lottery,” known as a “number game.” Code, § 26-6502. The evidence of the character of the lottery and its method of operation was substantially the same as that set out in Cutcliff v. State, 51 Ga. App. 40 (179 S. E. 568). Carroll, an officer, testified in part that two other officers and himself, on August 31, 1936, “Were riding on Spring Street and saw Henry Lewis and a negro boy riding in a ’36 Ford coach, and he went across Nelson crossing Spring and I recognized Henry Lewis; I had come in contact…