Salomon v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Ebom the City Court of Mobile. Tried before the Hon. Alex. McKinstry. Indictiients for setting up, or being concerned in setting-up, or carrying on a lottery, without the legislative authority of this State ; one against A. M. Salomon found at the May term, 1855, and two against Milton Boullemet, found at the July and November terms, 1855. In each case a bill of exceptions was taken to the rulings of the court, which present the only questions for revision in this court.
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Ebom the City Court of Mobile. Tried before the Hon. Alex. McKinstry. Indictiients for setting up, or being concerned in setting-up, or carrying on a lottery, without the legislative authority of this State ; one against A. M. Salomon found at the May term, 1855, and two against Milton Boullemet, found at the July and November terms, 1855. In each case a bill of exceptions was taken to the rulings of the court, which present the only questions for revision in this court. In Salomon’s case the bill of exceptions is as follows : “ On the trial of this cause, the proof was, that the defendant…
1Opinion of the CourtRige, C. J.
In Salomon v. The State, 27 Ala. Rep. 26, this court decided, that the sale, in this State, of a ticket in any lottery, which had been set up in this State, a sister State, or a foreign State, “ without the legislative authority of this State,” for, or on behalf of any agent, conductor, manager, or proprietor of the lottery, was an indictable offence under section 3254 of the Code. The reason of that decision consists in this: that the person making such sale was, by the very act of making it, carrying on, or concerned in carrying on, the lottery.
Of the correctness of that decision we do not…
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