Legal Opinion
Morrow v. State
Alaska Supreme Court
Decided June 18, 1973No. 1599PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Before RABINOWITZ, C. J., and CON-NOR, ERWIN and BOOCHEVER, JJ. CONNOR, Justice.
Appellant, Joseph Robert Morrow, was charged with selling a ticket in a lottery. 1
The ticket involved is commonly called a “football card”. Such a card lists numerous football games to be played on certain days, from which the purchaser selects from three to ten winning teams. The odds are listed at the bottom of the card. The selection of any winning team is useless unless it beats the opposing team by more than the “point spread” listed to the right of the teams.
The district court concluded that the…
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3Cited by21 opinions
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