Legal Opinion
Griggs v. State
Alabama Court of Appeals
Decided May 18, 1954No. 4 Div. 251PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HARWOOD, Judge.
The indictment against the appellants, omitting the formal parts, charge that they “set up, or were concerned in setting up or carrying on, a lottery,” etc.
The appellants filed respectively a motion to quash, and a demurrer to the indictment, each of which were overruled. Substantially the same grounds were assigned in support of the demurrer as were assigned to the motion to quash.
The indictment follows the form prescribed in our code for such offenses, Section 259, Title 15, No. 71, Code of Alabama 1940, and was not subject to quashing, or to demurrer. Reynolds v. State, 29…
2Cases cited24 opinions
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- People v. McBrideIllinois Supreme Court · 1908
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