Snead v. State

1. The defendant was. indicted for a misdemeanor, in that in the year 1938 he maintained a “certain scheme and device for the hazarding of money and other thing of value, which scheme and device is commonly known as and called a slot-machine; accused unlawfully keeping, maintaining, carrying on, and operatipg aforesaid slot-machine in that certain place of business on Fifth Avenue in the City of Rome, Floyd County, Georgia, known as American Café.” The indictment was evidently drawn under the Code, § 26-6502, which is as follows: “Carrying on a lottery. Any person who, by himself or another,…