Furth v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Pulaski Circuit Court. Robert J. Rea, Judge. This was a proceeding in rem to obtain the seizure and destruction of certain gaming devices. R. A. Furth intervened as their owner, and has appealed from an adverse judgment. The' facts are stated by the court as follows: STATEMENT BY THE COURT.
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Appeal from Pulaski Circuit Court. Robert J. Rea, Judge. This was a proceeding in rem to obtain the seizure and destruction of certain gaming devices. R. A. Furth intervened as their owner, and has appealed from an adverse judgment. The' facts are stated by the court as follows: STATEMENT BY THE COURT. On June 6, 1903, upon affidavit filed before Judge R. J. Rea, judge of the Sixth Judicial Circuit of the state of Arkansas, stating that certain gambling devices, commonR called a roulette wheel, or rouge et noir; also crap table, also chuck-a-luck, also faro bank table, also race horse wheel…
1Opinion of the CourtHughes, J.
(after stating the facts). The objection that that there is reversible error in the court’s overruling the objection of the appellant to giving testimony in the case on the ground that it might tend to criminate him is not tenable, we think, for the following reason: It does not appear to us that the testimony he gave would tend in fact to criminate him. But, without the testimony of the appellant, the evidence otherwise is such that no reasonable doubt can be entertained that the devices were gambling devices, kept and used for gambling, practically, alone, and that they were kept and used…
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