Beets v. Commonwealth

STEINFELD, Judge.

The Moose Lodge had a hall and other lodge facilities on Slate Ridge Road about a mile and one half east of Lilly in Laurel County. The “hall” contained several rooms where various activities occurred. After obtaining a search warrant officers conducted a raid and arrested Sammy Beets.

Later the grand jury indicted Beets for the offense of keeping, managing, setting up and operating “a pinball machine, in the Moose Lodge * * * whereby money was won or lost on said machine * * * the same being classified and taxed as a gaming device under the Internal Revenue Code of the United…