Morrison v. State

Appellants were convicted of violating § 2668, Crawford & Moses’ Digest, and have appealed. This section of the statute provides that any person- who shall sell, vend, or otherwise dispose of any lottery ticket, gift concert ticket, or like device, shall, on conviction thereof, be fined in any sum. not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars.

There' is no question about' the guilt of’ appellants if the testimony of a former mayor of the city and the chief of detectives of the city police department is to be credited. The chief of detectives testified that he kept noticing…