State v. Coats

The defendant Coats is charged, in an information filed by the district attorney, with having maintained and conducted, for money, a nickel-in-the- slot machine in Polk county. From an order sustaining a general demurrer to the information, the State appeals.

The facts in the information setting forth the commission of the alleged crime are identical with those in the pinball machine case (State v. Coats) this day held to constitute a lottery. As stated in the companion case, a pinball machine and a nickel-in-the-slot machine come within the same category and must be judged by the same law.…