Commonwealth v. Cancillieri Et Vir.

Argued November 15, 1949. John Cancillieri, the appellant, was convicted of having in his possession gambling devices with the intent or for the purpose of operating them as such. He admittedly had in his possession 170 slot machines, stored in a barn on a farm property — title to which was in his wife's name — in Indiana Township, Allegheny County.

Appellant lives at 1411 Fulton Street, Pittsburgh. He defended on the ground that when "they gave us orders to take them out of circulation, we took them out." He said he was at the time employed as a repairman by the Coin Machine Distributing…