§ 750.307Gambling; prima facie evidence

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Sec. 307.
    Prima facie evidence—In a prosecution or proceeding relative to lotteries, policy lotteries
 or policy, buying and selling pools or registering bets, any words, figures or characters,
 written, printed or exposed upon a blackboard, placard or otherwise in a place alleged to be
 used or occupied for such business, purporting or appearing to be a name of a horse or jockey,
 or a description of or reference to a trial or contest of skill, speed or endurance of man, beast,
 bird or machine, or game, competition, political nomination, appointment or election, or other
 act or event, or any odds, bet, combination bet or other stake or wager, or any code, cipher or
 substitute therefor, shall be prima facie evidence of the existence of the race, game, contest or
 other act or event so purporting or appearing to be referred to, and that such place is kept or
 occupied for gaming; and in all cases a copy or oral description thereof shall be competent
 evidence of the same.

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