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70 Ga. App. 513

28 S.E.2d 784

Davis v. State

Court of Appeals of Georgia

Decided January 14, 1944

Court of Appeals of Georgia · decided 1944-01-14

Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 1995

6 state decisions

Relies on Owen v. State · Taylor v. State · 2 Ga. App. 689 - Cohen v. State

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Decided 1944-01-14

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MacIntyre, J.

¶1 The defendant was charged with keeping, maintaining, and operating a lottery known as the “number game.” Proof of possession by the defendant of the following paraphernalia for participating in the carrying on of a lottery, to wit: forty-five books of lottery tickets concealed in a trap built in a table in her kitchen, which she stated belonged to her; and the testimony of an officer that this type of lottery book had made its appearance less than two years prior to the alleged crime, and that these lottery tickets “are not very old looking or dirty, as when you keep such books quite a while, they become dusty and *514 dirty;” was sufficient to sustain the conviction of the defendant of participating in carrying on a lottery, and holding that the offense was not barred by the statute of limitations. Morrow v. State, 62 Ga. App. 718 (9 S. E. 2d, 699) ; Cohen v. State, 2 Ga. App. 689, 693 (59 S. E. 4) ; Springer v. State, 121 Ga. 155 (48 S. E. 907) ; Tipton v. State, 119 Ga. 304 (46 S. E. 436) ; Taylor v. State, 5 Ga. App. 237 (2) (62 S. E. 1048).

Decided January 14, 1944. Swift Tyler, W. E. Armistead, for plaintiff in error. Bindley W. Camp, solicitor, John A. Boylcin, solicitor-general, Durwood T. Eye, contra.

¶2 Judgment affii-med.

Broyles, C. J., a/nd Gardner, J., concur.
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