Wilson v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Criminal Law. Lotteries, Charge of Court. Before Judge CLARK. City Court of Atlanta. March Term, 1881. Wilson was indicted and was tried in the city court of Atlanta. The indictment contained two counts, one for selling lottery tickets, the other for keeping and maintaining a lottery and other scheme or device for the hazarding of money or other valuable thing. The evidence was all aimed at the establishment of the second count.
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Criminal Law. Lotteries, Charge of Court. Before Judge CLARK. City Court of Atlanta. March Term, 1881. Wilson was indicted and was tried in the city court of Atlanta. The indictment contained two counts, one for selling lottery tickets, the other for keeping and maintaining a lottery and other scheme or device for the hazarding of money or other valuable thing. The evidence was all aimed at the establishment of the second count. It tended to show that the defendant kept an office or shop in which were certain numbers, running from I to 78; that persons would go into the office, selecta number…
1Opinion of the Court
JACKSON, Chief Justice.
The indictment contained two counts, one for selling lottery tickets, and the other for unlawfully keeping and carrying on a lottery and other scheme or device for the hazarding of money and other valuable thing.
The defendant was found guilty of the latter offense and brings the case here, alleging as error the refusal of the circuit court to grant him a new trial.
1. It was not error in the court to instruct the jury in regard to the form of their verdict, if they should find the defendant guilty. It was the duty of the court so to instruct them in this case; because if…
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