State v. . Shermer

The defendant Shermer conducts a place of business on Chestnut Street in Winston-Salem known as the Station Lunch. The defendant Wray was a waiter or assistant therein. On 29 July, 1939, police officers of the city, armed with a search warrant, searched the building in which the Station Lunch was conducted. They found a tip board, lottery tickets and advertisements of lotteries in a little shed just at the back door, about 10 feet from the back door, of the building. The lottery tickets were found at the top of a stairway which pulls down from the ceiling and which cannot be entered without…