Smith v. State

The defendant was convicted of maintaining and operating a lottery (Code, § 26-6502), of the same kind and character that this court has heretofore dealt with in many cases. See Turk v. State, 55 Ga. App. 732 (191 S. E. 283), and cit. The State offered as a witness an officer who testified that he apprehended the defendant and another negro riding in the back seat of a taxicab in the City of Columbus, and found a bag containing several hundred lottery tickets dated that day, and $65.90 in money on the floor of the cab, between the defendant’s feet. While both of the negroes claimed at that…