State v. Container Manufacturing Co.

FRANK W. HAYES, Special Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the Circuit Court for Criminal Causes, City of St. Louis, Missouri, ordering the confiscation and destruction of certain punch boards. These punch boards, numbering 100,408, were seized under a search warrant directing Sergeant Virgil Kleine of the St. Louis Police Department to search the fifth and sixth floors of a building at 1825 Chouteau Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri, and to seize punchboards and other somewhat related items. These premises were occupied by the appellants Container Manufacturing Company and Consolidated…