Mavrikis v. State

The defendant, John Mavrikis, was convicted on an accusation in the city court of Savannah charging that he “did unlawfully keep, maintain, employ, and carry on a certain scheme and device, other than a lottery, for the hazarding of money, said scheme or device being known as a ‘slot machine.’” The evidence showed that in a storage room three or four steps in the rear of his store there were seven “slot machines,” which were devices for the hazarding of money. Three of the machines had money in them, in the “jack pot.” These were on the table. Four were on the floor. The defendant told the…