State ex rel. Shriver v. Fraternal Order of Eagles, American Legion Post Nos. 5, 82, 88, 105 & 220

BYERS, Judge.

OPINION

The appellants appeal from a judgment of the trial court which ordered the destruction of gambling devices and the forfeiture of money found therein.

The appellants claim the trial court erroneously allowed the state attorney general to intervene in the case, claim the machines were seized illegally, claim they are exempt from the gambling statute, say T.C.A. § 39-6-602, the forfeiture act, is unconstitutional, and in a belated issue, raised after the state’s brief was filed in this Court, say the trial court did not have jurisdiction over the machines.

The judgment is…