State v. Croal

O’NIELL, Chief Justice.

The defendant was prosecuted under a bill of information charging him with permitting a slot machine to be on his premises and in his building, in violation of Act 107 of 1908. He filed a demurrer, averring specifically that the machine which was referred to in the bill of information, and which was seized on his premises by the State, was not a “ ‘slot machine,’ or similar mechanical device”, as defined in the statute, and was not a gambling device of any kind, but was merely a contrivance for selling mint tablets, by the dropping of a nickel in the slot. For the…