Coppedge v. State

The defendant was tried in the criminal court of Fulton County, before the judge and without the intervention of a jury, for operating a lottery, known as the number game, for the hazarding of money, in Fulton County, Georgia. After the introduction of evidence, the judge adjudged the defendant guilty; and she obtained a writ of certiorari which, on the hearing thereof, *359was overruled by a judge of the superior court of said county. It is alleged in the bill of exceptions that the conviction of the accused “was based upon evidence illegally obtained by force from the person of plaintiff in…