Sparks v. State

The defendant’s contention that the game, for the operation of which he was indicted, was one of skill and not one of chance, and therefore not a violation of the law, is untenable under his own statement. His defense brings to mind what was said by the Supreme Court in Equitable Loan &c. Co. v. Waring, 117 Ga. 599 (44 S. E. 320, 62 L. R. A. 93, 97 Am. St. R. 177), in discussing lotteries, etc.: "As fast as statutes are passed, or decisions made, some skilful change is devised in the plan of operations in the hope of getting just beyond the statutory prohibition: but so long as the inherent…