State v. Woodward

This was a prosecution against the appellee,, by affidavit and information, in' the court below, for selling a lottery ticket in the Vincennes Lottery, Indiana, for the-benefit of the Vincennes University.

The defendant pleaded as follows': “ The said defendant. John T. Woodward, for his special plea and answer to the-affidavit and information filed herein, admits that he sold the-lottery ticket, as alleged in said affidavit and information,, but says that he had lawful right so to do; for that by an act. of the Legislature of the Territory of Indiana, approved on the 17th day of September,…