Schroufe v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court bt

Judge Lassing

-Affirming.

George Schroufe was indicted in the Jefferson Circuit- Court on the charge of selling lottery tickets in. violation of section 2573 Kentucky Statutes. To this indictment he entered a plea of not guilty, and upon trial was found gnil-ty and his punishment fixed at a fine of $500.00 and confinement in the state penitentiary for two years'.

An indictment in every particular similar to the one under consideration was held good on demurrer in the recent case of Boyd v. Commonwealth, decided December 14, 1910, and for the reasons stated'in that opinion…