Dunn v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ or Error to the Recorder’s Court of the city of Chicago ; the Hon. Evert Van Buren, Judge, presiding. The opinion of the court contains a sufficient statement of the case.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Lawrence
In 1847, the legislature passed a law, making the vending of lottery tickets a penal offense, and punishing it with a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $500. Under this law the plaintiff in error was indicted in the Recorder’s Court of Chicago, tried and found guilty. From the judgment- rendered on that verdict he has prosecuted a writ of error.
The evidence shows that the defendant below was conducting what he termed, in his advertisements, a “gift sale” establishment. He kept upon his desk, at his place of business, a box, two and a half feet long, filled with envelopes standing…
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