Wilkinson v. State Ex Rel. Morgan

The State of Alabama sought and received a permanent injunction to abate an alleged gaming nuisance under the provisions of Code 1975, § 13-7-90, viz.:

All places maintained or resorted to for the purpose of gaming and all places where gaming tables or other gaming devices are kept for the purpose of permitting persons to game thereon or therewith are declared to be common nuisances and may be abated by writ of injunction issued out of a court upon a complaint filed in the name of the state by the attorney general or any district attorney whose duty requires him to prosecute criminal cases in…