State v. Stripling
Supreme Court of Alabama
Indictment for Selling Pools on Horse Races. Appeal from the City Court of Montgomery. The appellee, James D. Stripling, was arraigned under the following indictment: ‘ ‘The grand jury of said county charge that before the finding of this indictment, James D. Stripling unlawfully sold a pool or ticket upon a horse race, which said race did not occur in the State of Alabama.
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Indictment for Selling Pools on Horse Races. Appeal from the City Court of Montgomery. The appellee, James D. Stripling, was arraigned under the following indictment: ‘ ‘The grand jury of said county charge that before the finding of this indictment, James D. Stripling unlawfully sold a pool or ticket upon a horse race, which said race did not occur in the State of Alabama. “The grand jury of said county further charge that before the finding of this indictment, James D. Stripling unlawfully sold a pool or ticket, or some device or chance for a pool, or made or took a wager, or entered into a…
1Opinion of the CourtMcCLELLAN, J.
The question involved in this case is the constitutionality of an act approved February 26, 1889, “For the better suppression of gambling.”-Acts 1888-89, p. 45. Under this caption, the act prohibits and denounces as criminal the selling of any pool or ticket, or the making or taking of any wager, or the entering into any transaction whereby money or other thing of value may be won or lost upon any horse-race, prize fight, drill, base-ball game or other contest of any kind not occurring in this State.
The first ground of attack upon the constitutionality of this statute is, that the subject…
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