Perry v. Commonwealth

Defendant, Jesse Thomas Perry, was convicted on an indictment charging that he did unlawfully and feloniously set up, promote, and was concerned in the operation and conduct of a lottery, known as the numbers game, in violation of Code § 18.1-340, as amended, and he was sentenced, in accordance with the jury’s verdict, to eight years in the penitentiary and fined $5,000. We granted defendant a writ of error to the judgment.

Defendant contends that (1) the evidence was insufficient to support the conviction; (2) the search warrant did not authorize a search of the entire dwelling house; (3)…