Commonwealth v. Whipps
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 50 — INDICTMENT APPEAL FROM JEFFERSON CIRCUIT COURT. 1. The act for the benefit of W. C. D. Whipps, approved April 27, 1880, upon its face confers a license to do that which the general law forbids. '2. It is the grant of an exclusive privilege. ■3. The first section of the hill of rights in the constitution provides that “all freemen when they form a social compact are equal, and that no man or set of men are entitled to exclusive separate public emoluments or…
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Case 50 — INDICTMENT APPEAL FROM JEFFERSON CIRCUIT COURT. 1. The act for the benefit of W. C. D. Whipps, approved April 27, 1880, upon its face confers a license to do that which the general law forbids. '2. It is the grant of an exclusive privilege. ■3. The first section of the hill of rights in the constitution provides that “all freemen when they form a social compact are equal, and that no man or set of men are entitled to exclusive separate public emoluments or privileges from the community, hut in consideration of public services.” 4. The legislature having, by a general law, prohibited…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE PBYOB
delivered the opinion op the court.
The appellee, W. C. D. Whipps, was indicted by a grand jury, empaneled in the Jefferson circuit court, of the offense •of promoting a lottery, by permitting a building occupied -and owned by him to be used for the sale of lottery tickets, for the disposal of money and property by way of lottery, and by advertising a lottery known as the Willard Hotel Lottery, by which it was proposed to dispose of certain *271'.property (described) by lottery, See. No objection was made to the indictment,' and the defendant, by his plea, traversed the charge made…
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