Polk v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

The indictment contains two counts; the first charges that appellant did unlawfully and directly keep and exhibit for the purpose of gaming a policy game; the second count charges that he did unlawfully through his agents Will Johnson and Lon Geights keep and exhibit for the purpose of gaming a policy game, etc.

Motion was made to quash because the indictment charges no offense against the law: There is no such game known as a policy game, and because “policy” as it is known and has been judicially defined is not a game but is a lottery, and partakes of the true…