Commonwealth v. Schatzman
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 78 — Indictment against William Schatzman foe Operating • a Slot Machine on His Peemises. APPEAL FROM MASON CIRCUIT COURT-JAMBS P. HARBESON, CIRCUIT JUDGE. * From an Order Sustaining a Demurrer to the Indictment the Commonwealth Appeals. AUTHORITIES CITED. The indictment does charge a public offense. Kentucky Statutes, secs. 1967 andl 1960; Act of Ky.
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Case 78 — Indictment against William Schatzman foe Operating • a Slot Machine on His Peemises. APPEAL FROM MASON CIRCUIT COURT-JAMBS P. HARBESON, CIRCUIT JUDGE. * From an Order Sustaining a Demurrer to the Indictment the Commonwealth Appeals. AUTHORITIES CITED. The indictment does charge a public offense. Kentucky Statutes, secs. 1967 andl 1960; Act of Ky. Legislature, Bullitt’s Criminal Code, p. 1; Connor v. Com., 13 Bush, 721; Com. v. Scroggin, 60 S. W., 529; Burns v. Com., 3 Met., 14; Taylor v. Com., 3 Bush, 511; Com. v. Davis, 12 Bush, 240; Young v. Com., 12 Bush, 243; Flint v. Young, 81…
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION of the cotiBT by
JUDGE' HOBSON
'Reversing.
The circuit court sustained a general demurrer to the following indictment: “The grand jury of Mason county, in the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, accuse William Schatzman of the offense of suffering and permitting certain machine and contrivance known as 'slot machine’ to be operated on the premises in his occupation and under his control, whereby money and property and other things of value was won and Jost, committed as follows, viz.: The said William Schatzman, on the 1st day of January,. 1904, and other days…
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