Steed v. State

Search warrants were issued by the circuit judge of Jefferson County under § 2637 of Crawford & Moses’ Digest on information that gambling devices commonly called slot or marble machines were kept contrary to law in a cigar store operated by S. A. Rosenberg and in a sandwich shop operated by Jerome Weaver in Pine Bluff. The sheriff executed the writs by taking into his custody certain slot marble machines which were ■being used at 'both places. The two causes were consolidated by order of court, and appellant herein, the owner of the machines, intervened, alleging that they were manufactured…