State v. Stern

1 Reported in 275 N.W. 626. Defendant, convicted of the offense of advertising a lottery on the 18th day of February, 1937, appeals.

The facts were stipulated and a jury waived, the charge being a misdemeanor. For a condensed statement of the facts material for a decision, this may suffice: Defendant is the principal owner and manager of a Minnesota corporation which was employed by Affiliated Distributors, an Iowa corporation, as agent for Affiliated Enterprises, a Colorado corporation, to solicit contracts from moving picture theatres to use a purported copyrighted plan called "bank night"…