State v. Parent

The appellant, William Parent, was found guilty by a jury of the crime of having in possession a gambling device, and appeals from the judgment pronounced upon the verdict.

The prosecution was founded upon § 2472 of the criminal code (Rem. Comp. Stat.), which reads as follows:

“Every person who shall have in his possession or shall permit to he placed or kept in any building or boat, or part thereof, owned, leased or occupied by him, any table, slot machine, or any other article, device or apparatus of a kind commonly used for gambling, or operated for the losing or winning of any money or…