Jeffries v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Error to Jackson Circuit Court. Richard H. Poweee, Judge. 1. The charge of keeping and exhibiting a gaming device is not sustained by any evidence.
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Error to Jackson Circuit Court. Richard H. Poweee, Judge. 1. The charge of keeping and exhibiting a gaming device is not sustained by any evidence. There is no evidence that he set up, kept or exhibited the machine or had any .interest in it. 2. The court, in its instruction, assumed as a fact there was a subterfuge in violating the laws of the state, and thus violated art. 7, sec. 23, const. 1. The evidence shows that appellant furnished the machine, and was interested therein. Sand. & H. Dig. secs. 1613, 1614. 2.. The facts were not denied, and the court properly instructed the jury; for…
1Opinion of the CourtWood, J.
The appellant was convicted before a justice of the peace on an information charging him with “keeping and exhibiting a gaming device.” He appealed to the circuit court, was again convicted, and appeals to this court. The proof was that the defendant employed one Charles .Mason “to look after” a machine in the Underwood saloon in Newport, Jackson county, Arkansas, called a “slot machine,” upon which money “was won and lost,” within twelve months prior to the filing of the information. The machine stood in John Underwood’s saloon. The witness came up to the saloon in the mornings, and “just…
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