Cutcliff v. State

The plaintiff in error was convicted of the offense of keeping and maintaining a lottery known as a “number game,” and with furnishing lottery tickets or numbers and combinations which represented chances in a lottery. The evidence for the State was that on October 16, 1933, there was being operated in Fulton county, Georgia, a lottery known as a “number game.” “As to how that number game is operated and what number they are trying to guess or play for, they try to guess what number will come out in the total bond sales for the day in New York,—that is, you leave the millions off to the left…