Durant v. Bennett

GLENN, District Judge.

For the last several years the state of South Carolina has been peculiarly vigilant in its activities to enforce its criminal statutes directed against gambling devices. Particularly have these activities been directed against the operation of so-called slot machines which have been placed in the state and which are undoubtedly operated primarily as gambling devices. It appears that these machines are so constructed as to yield an enormous return to the owners and the local custodians with whom the owners place the machine. In that the machines, so far as outward…