Chandler v. State

The defendant was convicted, in the criminal court of Fulton County, of the offense of operating a lottery, and obtained a certiorari from the superior court. On the hearing the certiorari was overruled, and he excepted to that judgment. The evidence set forth in the petition for certiorari authorized the jury to find that the defendant, when arrested on January 18, 1939, had in his possession an adding-machine ribbon which the arresting officer testified was a lottery ribbon. The ribbon had. on it the following words and numbers: “January 18, 1939, x9, 111, 1455, 1091, 363, c4 and 243.” The…