Thomas v. State

1. In the first amended ground of the defendants’ motion for a new trial, error is assigned on the refusal of the court to compel the State’s witness, police officer C. M. Dixon, on cross-examination, to divulge the names of the persons who had furnished to him the information from which he testified that he had gained the most of his knowledge as to the manner and method of playing and operating a lottery of the kind charged to the defendants. The witness had testified as to the manner in which the game was played, and how it was operated, and stated that he had never played this game nor…