Thomas v. State

The defendant was convicted of maintaining, keeping, and operating a lottery. Her appeal is based only on the sufficiency of the evidence to authorize her conviction. The evidence for the State disclosed that the officers who arrested the defendant had had several complaints with reference to her and thereupon went to her house where they found her sitting in the room with a lottery book and a slip of paper with numbers written thereon in her hand. “That book I [the officer] found there is a lottery boob used in the lottery known as the ‘number game’ for hazarding of money. I am familiar with…