State v. Lawrence
Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma
Appeal from Bryan County Court; J. L. Bappolee, Judge. E. J. Lav,-fence was prosecuted for openly and publicly betting on a game of baseball, in violation of Comp. Laws 1909, sec 2782. A demurrer to the information was sustained, and defendant discharged, and the state appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtFueman, J.
The information alleges that on the 27th day of April, 1911, in Bryan county, the defendant did “willfully and wrongfully commit an act which grossly disturbed the public peace, -openly outraged public decency, and injured the public morals, by then and there, in the presence of and among divers and sundry persons assembled at a baseball game and consisting of men and women, boys and girls, bet the sum of five, dollars with one Jake Sims on said game, and said betting and gambling was done publicly and openly ’ in the presence of said persons so assembled.” To this information the defendant…
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