Supreme Court of Alabama December 15, 1875 (Boyd v. State)

lead-opinion

STONE, J,

The appellant, defendant in the court below, *605was indicted and convicted in the city court of Mobile under section 3616 of the Revised Code, which declares that “any person who sets up, carries on, or is concerned in setting up or carrying on any lottery, or device of the like kind, without the legislative authority of this State, ....