Alexander v. Martin, Sheriff

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Fishburne.

This proceeding was by permission instituted in the Original Jurisdiction of this Court, to restrain the respondents, State, county, and municipal law enforcement officers, from seizing and destroying or otherwise interfering with the. operation of petitioners’ machines, which are described as electrical and mechanical devices, and otherwise denominated as pin boards, pin tables, marble boards, and the like.

-The petition alleges that the machines are not gambling devices within the purview of Section 1301-A, Code, of 1932, but on…