Wolf v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Garland Circuit' Court; Scott Wood, Judge; 1. The demurrer should have been sustained. The offense is a misdemeanor and the conviction for the first offense did not occur within one year before the return of the indictment for the second offense. Kirby’s Digest, § 2106. 2. As to the particularity with which a conviction for the first offense must be alleged in an indictment for the third offense, see 14 R. C. L., p. 190, § 35; 22 Cyc, 356, § 2; 22 Ark. 323; Ann.
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Appeal from Garland Circuit' Court; Scott Wood, Judge; 1. The demurrer should have been sustained. The offense is a misdemeanor and the conviction for the first offense did not occur within one year before the return of the indictment for the second offense. Kirby’s Digest, § 2106. 2. As to the particularity with which a conviction for the first offense must be alleged in an indictment for the third offense, see 14 R. C. L., p. 190, § 35; 22 Cyc, 356, § 2; 22 Ark. 323; Ann. Cases, 1914, C. 562, note; 9 Ann. Cases, 767, note; 24 L. R. A. (N. S.) 421 and note. 3. The evidence does not support…
1Opinion of the CourtHart, J.
John Wolf prosecutes this appeal to reverse a judgment of the circuit court convicting him of the crime of horse racing, charged to have been committed contrary to Act 55 of the Acts of 1907. See Acts of 1907, p. 134. The act is as follows:
“Section 1. That hereafter it shall be unlawful to bet in this State, directly or indirectly, by selling or buying pools or otherwise, any money or other valuable thing, on any horse race of any kind whether had or run in this State or out of this State.
“Section 2. That any person who shall violate section one of this act shall be deemed guilty of a…
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