Hurvich v. State

FOSTER, Justice.

This is a suit in equity to declare a slot machine contraband and to be destroyed pursuant to the power contained in the act approved July 25, 1931 (Gen. Acts 1931, p. 806). It is not controverted that the machine, called a Roscoe, is a gambling device within the terms of that act.

Appellant contends that it is not subject to condemnation and destruction because it is not shown ever to have been used for gambling, and that he himself was a dealer in such machines, and not an operator, and had no purpose or intent ever to operate it.

Section 3 of the act (page 807) makes it…