State v. Watts

The defendant was prosecuted in the criminal court of Jackson county upon information charging him with selling lottery tickets, and upon being tried was convicted and adjudged to pay a fine of $25. Prom this he appeals to this court and insists that the conviction was wrongful — undertakes to justify his act in selling lottery tickets under an assignment of what is known in the judicial history of this State as the Gregory contract. This court, in the case of State ex rel. v. France, 72 Mo. 41, held that the right of the assignees of said Gregory contract to operate a lottery expired on the…