Ellis v. State

The appellant, O. E. Ellis, was tried and convicted on an affidavit, before a justice of the peace, for the commission of the second offense of having in his possession a gambling device, commonly known as a slot machine, contrary to the provisions of Section 2047, Code 1942, and was sentenced to serve a term of six months in the county jail. From this conviction and sentence he appealed to the circuit court, was tried de novo on this affi davit, was again convicted and sentenced to a term of six months in the connty jail, and also to pay a fine of $250.

The statute in question makes the first…