State v. Read

Appeal by Harvey M. Read from a judgment of conviction, entered in the district court of Cascade county, Hon. J. W. Speer, district judge, presiding, for the crime of unlawfully setting up lotteries.

On and prior to May 19, 1949, Harvey M. Read, individually, ran and conducted a tavern located south of the city limits of Great Falls, in Cascade county, Montana. In his tavern Read set up for operation three coin-operated slot machines. No state license had been issued for any of the machines nor do the provisions of Chapter 142 of the Session Laws of 1945, nor those of any other statute or Act…