State v. McNichols

May 3, 1940, by authority of a search warrant, issued by a justice of the peace of Bannock County, a search of respondent’s premises, known as the Shamrock Club, was made and there were seized and taken into possession of the sheriff, six slot machines and a roulette table, which contained $256. May 7, 1940, respondent was charged, in the justice’s court, of having played and conducted games of chance, in a house owned by him, in violation of the law making gambling a misdemeanor. He procured a change of venue to the Probate Court of Bannock County, where the case was tried to a jury, which…