Howell v. State

Upon information filed in the Fort Smith municipal court a slot machine, known as a “Mills Mint Vending Machine,” was seized as a gambling device, and upon a hearing H. C. Howell, one of the proprietors of the Hattaway Drug Company’s stores where the machine was being operated, filed an intervention claiming that he was the owner of the machine and prayed that it be returned to him.

The intervention was denied, and an appeal was taken to the circuit court, where, upon trial, the mint vending machine was held to he' a gambling device and subject to seizure as such, and the intervention of…