Jones v. State

Broyles, O. J.

The defendant was charged with operating a lottery, known as the number game, for the purpose of hazarding money. The undisputed evidence showed that the particular scheme for such hazarding required in its operation several or more persons (some to write the tickets or chances, some, known as “pick-up” men, to pick them up and take them to “headquarters,” and others at “headquarters” to add up and assort the tickets). The evidence, direct and circumstantial, for the State, authorized the judge, trying the ease without the intervention of a jury, to find that the accused…