Whitney v. State

Information for selling lottery tickets. Conviction and fine.

The information charged that the defendant sold “to John Chapman two lottery tickets in a scheme for the division of the following personal property, to-wit: Gold watches, silver watches, gold lockets, gold breastpins, gold earrings, gold finger rings and pencil cases, to be determined by chance, for the sum of two dollars — said lottery and scheme for the division of said property, purporting to be drawn at Si. Louis, in the state of Missouri, on the first day of Mcm'cJi, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, to be determined by…