State v. Brown

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Parker, J.:

This is an appeal from an order sustaining a motion to quash an information in a criminal action.

The prosecution was instituted under the provisions of G. S. 1949, 21-1502, providing:

“Any person who shall sell, or offer to sell, or expose or keep for sale, or advertise for sale, in any manner, or be in any wise concerned in the sale, the offer to sell, exposure to sale, or in advertising for sale, any lottery ticket or pretended lottery ticket, or any writing, printing, token, device or thing purporting to be a lottery ticket, or any…