State v. Hayes

This case involves a question as to the constitutionality of chapter 82, p. 185, of the Session Acts of 1905 of the general assembly of Tennessee. The judge of the criminal court of Davidson county, holding the act to he unconstitutional, quashed an indictment found under *42it against the defendant in error, in which he was charged with making a hook upon the result of a horse race run on the 30th of December, 1905, in the county of Davidson, upon a duly licensed race track inclosed by a substantial fence, which track was owned and operated, for the purpose of racing horses, by a corporation…