Johnson v. State

The evidence was sufficient to show what constituted a lottery known as a number game, such as that being operated, as was indicated by the tickets, and was sufficient to indicate such recent use as would prevent the bar of the statute as to the offense of lottery. Connecting the defendant with these tickets were the facts that when the officers went to her home and while in the house the defendant went to a bed and secured the tickets from concealment and attempted to destroy them, and admitted to the officers, when asked whether the house was hers, that her husband had started paying for it…