Smith v. State

The appellant was indicted and tried in the Criminal Court of Baltimore City ; the first count in the indictment charging him with having sold a lottery ticket to one William Bailey. On this count there was a verdict of guilty. At the trial the State offered to prove by said Bailey “ that he had played policy on the defendant,” and that he paid for and received pieces of paper which are commonly known as policies, and which, on the happening of the contingency of certain numbers being drawn in a lottery of the same date but in another State, would entitle him to the sum of one dollar and…