State v. Cross

Appellant was charged, tried, and convicted on several counts of the crime of receiving money which was designed and intended to be bet on a horse race and of the crime of recording a bet designed and intended to be wagered on the result of a horse race. A demurrer to the information was interposed and overruled. A motion challenging the sufficiency of the evidence was denied.

After the verdict was returned, appellant moved in arrest of judgment upon the ground that the facts stated in the information did not constitute a crime and that there had been no proof of some element of the crime for…