State v. Bryant

There was evidence on the part of the State that 29 January, 1949, a police officer went with one Ivy Riddick to the latter’s home, and found the defendant in a room therein and close by in a heater a quantity of tickets, or pieces of paper marked with numbers, which the officer testified were “butter and egg” lottery tickets. Apparently the defendant had unsuccessfully attempted to burn the tickets. Riddick testified he had at the direction of defendant delivered the tickets to him there. The officer also testified, over objection, that he had shortly before visited the defendant in his home…