[smith288]

Finders keepers...doesn't work in law.

Mrs Battle doesnt have anything else besides her word. That doesnt work in law either.

She needs more than just her word. She needs other people to vouch for her presense at the time of ticket purchase. She needs a bet slip to cross verify the numbers on the actual ticket. She needs more than ambiguous reasoning behind the numbers she selects. She needs more than just her tears during a police report.

[Naspino]

She needs more than just her word. She needs other people to vouch for her presense at the time of ticket purchase.

I'd say she needs more than that. Lets say you struck up a conversation with a woman at the counter and discussed the numbers they were picking and what you'd do with the money. Then you saw the winning numbers and remembered that meeting. You know the time and the store. You dropped it. Hell maybe you even touched it.

[Protagoras]

I never said it was her ticket or that lots of proof wasn't needed. Only that "finders keepers" doesn't work in law. The rest is a separate question.