State v. Googin
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Complaint and warrant in which respondent is charged with maintaining and operating a certain automatic gum vending machine contrary to R. S., 1916, Chap. 130, Sec. 18, known as the lottery or gambling statute. Respondent was adjudged guilty in the Municipal Court and appealed to Supreme Judicial Court, where case was reported to Law Court upon certain agreed statements. Judgment in accordance with opinion. Case stated in opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtSpear, J.
This case comes up on an agreed statement. The respondent is the proprietor of an automatic machine installed in his store for the purpose of vending packages of chewing gum to the public and operated as follows: Upon the deposit in a slot of a five cent piece, or nickel, and the operation of a lever on the side, the machine will automatically deliver to the customers a package of chewing gum. In addition to this purely vending mechanism the machine also contains a device by means of which a certain proportion of the profits resulting from the sales made by the machine is automatically…
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