State v. . Lipkin
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal by defendant from Ferguson, J., at September Term, 1914, of Edgecombe. Tbe prisoner was indicted in tbe court below for conducting a lottery in violation of Revisal, sec. 3726, wbicb provides tbat it shall be unlawful to open, set up, promote, or carry on a lottery, publicly or privately, by any name or style, or by sucb ways and means expose to sale any real or personal property therein described, or goods or chattels, or anything of value whatsoever, and imposing a…
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Appeal by defendant from Ferguson, J., at September Term, 1914, of Edgecombe. Tbe prisoner was indicted in tbe court below for conducting a lottery in violation of Revisal, sec. 3726, wbicb provides tbat it shall be unlawful to open, set up, promote, or carry on a lottery, publicly or privately, by any name or style, or by sucb ways and means expose to sale any real or personal property therein described, or goods or chattels, or anything of value whatsoever, and imposing a fine or imprisonment as the punishment for the offense as a misdemeanor.' It also provides that, any person who engages…
1Opinion of the Court
Walker, J\,
after stating the case: It is well settled that laws and regulations necessary for the protection of the health, morals, and safety of society are strictly within the legitimate exercise of the police power, and in the interpretation of such remedial statutes the office of the judges, it has been said, is to make such a construction as will suppress the mischief and advance the remedy, and to defeat all evasions for the continuance of the mischief. Magdalen College case, 11 Co., 71 b. The word “lottery” is not a term of the common law, and to dispose of real or personal property by…
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