State of Arizona v. Moore

Respondent was convicted in the city magistrate’s court upon two separate complaints ■charging him with the violation of an ordinance of the city of Phoenix making it a misdemeanor to engage in the business of receiving, making or negotiating bets on horse races at tracks in or out of Arizona. He appealed to the superior court of Maricopa county, and that court sustained his demurrers to the complaints and dismissed the cases.

The city attorney of Phoenix has appealed on behalf of the state, assigning the court’s ruling on the demurrers and the orders of dismissal as error. The cases were…