State v. Bruner

The defendant was prosecuted upon an information. for selling lottery tickets, in violation of Revised Statutes, section 1567. The testimony introduced to convict him was substantially as follows :•

Charles Patterson, a -witness, called on the defendant at 417 Walnut street, where was a bird store appearing to be kept by E. Kaub. There was a back room partitioned off from the front. “I went in there and went back to the little room and said, ‘ I want to make a play.’ He handed me a piece of white envelope and I wrote three numbers on it, handed it in and he copied it on a little book and…