Smith v. City of Albany

Carlisle, Judge.

Lillie Pearl Smith was tried and convicted in in the Recorder’s Court of the City of Albany on a charge under the provisions of Chapter 14, § 16 (a) of the Code of the City of Albany, making it “unlawful for any person to possess any ticket, number, combination, or anything representing a chance in any lottery or gift enterprise, commonly known as bolita or number’s game, or other similar scheme or device, within the corporate limits of the city or the police jurisdiction thereof.” Her petition for certiorari to the superior court, after having been sanctioned, was overruled,…