Batley v. Ritchie, District Judge

The jury returned this verdict: “We, the jurors impaneled in the above case, find the defendant guilty of aiding, assisting, or abetting in pool selling, or of aiding, assisting, or abetting in receiving and registering a bet in money on the result of a horse race, as charged in the amended complaint.”

The charge in the complaint is in the conjunctive. The verdict of the jury is in the disjunctive. It is that the defendant is found guilty of “aiding, assisting, or abetting in pool selling, or of aiding, assisting, or abetting in receiving and registering a bet in money on the result of a horse…