Reeder v. State

The defendant excepted to his conviction for the offense of lottery, known as the numbers game. He was arrested in the basement of a drug-store. At the time, the defendant had in his manual possession a cigar-box which contained books, tickets, and ribbon, commonly used in the operation of the gambling device for which he was convicted. This paraphernalia was seized and introduced as evidence at the trial. The tickets consisted of both original and memoranda sheets. The defendant confessed that one of the .writer’s books in the box was his individual writer’s book, and that he wad a writer.…