Commonwealth v. Gazal

Opinion by

Woodside, J.,

This is an appeal by the defendant, William T. Gazal, from the judgments of sentence of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Allegheny County. Defendant was tried before a jury on two charges of operating a lottery and particularly of having in his possession with intent to sell or barter lottery or numbers tickets. He was convicted on both indictments. Motions' for a new trial and in arrest of the judgments were dismissed by the court below.

The evidence showed that defendant had been arrested on two occasions, once with 111 and the other time with 89 currently dated yellow…