Court Opinion

ID: 3942130
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-06 10:05:42.783281+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:43:24.780882
License: Public Domain

Conviction for maintaining a lottery; punishment, a fine of $100.00.
We find in this record no complaint. Under the practice in this State and the law thereof an information must be founded upon a complaint. In this condition of the record this court is without jurisdiction.
It is easily possible that the failure to file a complaint resulted from oversight. If a complaint and information should *Page 360 
be filed in this case and prosecution had hereafter, we call attention to the fact that there is nothing in this record to support the averment of the establishment of a lottery by this appellant. Somebody put a slot machine in the place of business known as the Tree Tavern. There is no testimony showing that either the slot machine or place of business belonged to this appellant, or that anybody ever saw appellant engaged in the operation of said place of business or machine. Such facts would not support a conviction.
Because of the absence of a complaint the judgment is reversed and the prosecution is ordered dismissed.
Reversed and prosecution ordered dismissed.