Fiorella v. City of Birmingham

HARWOOD, Judge.

This appellant stands convicted of violating an ordinance of the City of Birmingham pertaining to policy games.

The complaint filed against the appellant in the circuit court, omitting the formal parts, charges that appellant, “within twelve *387months before the beginning of this prosecution, and within the City of Birmingham or the police jurisdiction thereof, did possess tickets, writings, papers, articles, matters, or things of a nature or kind, which are customarily or usually used in the operation of a lottery, policy game, or other game of chance, contrary to and in violation…