Stanley-Thompson Liquor Co. v. People
Supreme Court of Colorado
Error to Las Animas District Court, Hon. A. Watson McHendrie, Judge.
1Opinion of the Court
*457Opinion by
Mr. Justice Teller.
The Stanley-Thompson Liquor Company, plaintiff in error, was the owner of certain gambling devices, some of which were stored in the back room of its place of business, and some in a public warehouse. The record shows that they were purchased some three years before the proceedings here under review, as a part of the property taken over by the plaintiff in error on purchasing a wholesale liquor business.
They were ordered to be destroyed under the authority of section 1795, R. S. 1908, and it is of this order that complaint is made.
The undisputed evidence is that…
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