Richmond v. State

SAMFORD, Judge.

The defendant was charged by affidavit in the Jefferson County Court of Misdemeanors, and on appeal to the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, by a complaint filed by the Solicitor, under the Statute, with a violation of Section 4247 of the Code of 1923. The specific charge embodied in the complaint was that the defendant was concerned in setting up or carrying on a lottery or device of like kind, or gift enterprise, etc.

The bill of exceptions does not purport to set out all of the evidence, and for that reason the Attorney General, in his brief, insists that this Court on…