Haycraft v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Dietzman—

Reversing.

On April 13,1931, C. E. Morgan, the county attorney of Hardin county, while walking down Main street of Elizabethtown, observed a Tudor Ford sedan parked near the curb. On glancing through the windows, he saw in the rear of the automobile two slot machines. They were, in the main, covered by a thin spread, but their outline was plainly visible through the thin covering, and the little top plate peculiar to slot machines and which provides a receptacle in which the nickel which operates it is dropped was uncovered and plainly visible. In…