City of Moberly v. Deskin

Defendant was prosecuted and acquitted in the police court of Moberly, a city of the third class, on the charge of permitting “a gambling device commonly called a slot machine . . . to be set up and used for the purpose of gaming and gambling and playing games of chance for money and property, in a certain building in said city . . . which said building was then and there occupied and used by and was in the possession of and under the control of and belonged to the said George C. Deskin who did then and there permit divers persons . . . to come together in said building and play for money and…