Scaglione v. State

ROBERTS, Justice.

The appellant was tried and convicted on a charge of being “connected with and interested in” a lottery, as denounced by Section 849.09, Florida Statutes, F.S.A., and has appealed from the judgment of conviction.

The attacks here made by the appellant against the information filed against him cannot be sustained, but we think the judgment must be reversed on the ground of insufficiency of the evidence to support a conviction of the charge against him.

The evidence adduced by the State is, in substance, as follows: Officer Bradley testified that while he was in the home of one…