Pepe v. Anderson

LAYTON, District Judge.

This is a petition for Habeas Corpus filed in this Court for the purpose of drawing into review the conviction and sentence of the petitioner in the Superior Court of Delaware upon a charge of numbers writing.

On October 29, 1959, the vice squad of the Wilmington Police force employed an informer to go in a small store in that city and place a lottery policy or “numbers” bet, with the petitioner. The informer entered the store, gave petitioner two silver quarters and told him he wanted to play numbers 786 and 789. Petitioner wrote the numbers on a slip of paper together…