Dickerson v. State

The defendant assigns error on a judgment overruling her certiorari to review a conviction for violating the lottery laws. The evidence for the State showed that two policemen who had been assigned to investigate the violation of this particular law stationed themselves to look for a person of the description of the defendant. The defendant came along and the officers arrested her, finding in her pocketbook a number of documents, consisting of typewriter ribbons, numbers, additions and totals, and money. The officers testified in detail as to how the lottery known as the “number game” is…