Norton v. State

The indictment, upon which the appellant was convicted;, charged that be, together with certain other persons named, “ bet the sum of twenty-five dollars, each, upon a certain unlawful gambling device, commonly called a raffle, which, said gambling device, was then and there adapted, devised and designed for the purpose of playing a game of chance, at which money or property may be lost or won,” &c. The evidence was, that Sutton, one of the defendants, owned a buggy, and divided the value of it into ten shares, and denominated these shares chances. The defendant, Norton, together with the…