Court Opinion

ID: 3624131
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-06 00:05:10.252178+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:22:07.047276
License: Public Domain

Judgment of Appellate Division and that of Court of Special Sessions reversed and defendant discharged. Defendant is charged only with unlawfully and knowingly possessing policy slips: Held, that although the defendant's gift enterprise constituted a lottery (Penal Law, § 1370), the certificates in his possession were not shown to be policy slips and defendant was not shown to be engaged in the game or scheme commonly known as policy.
Concur: CARDOZO, Ch. J., POUND, CRANE, ANDREWS and O'BRIEN, JJ. Not sitting: LEHMAN and KELLOGG, JJ. *Page 583