Abdow v. District of Columbia

HOOD, Associate Judge.

Appellant was convicted of violating Art. XXXVI of the Police Regulations of the District of Columbia, which defines a “mechanical amusement machine” to mean .“any machine, device, or appliance, except .'music machine, offered for use by the public, as a game, entertainment, ór amusement * * *, which may be operated or caused to operate by the insertion of a coin,” and which provides that owners or operators of establishments in which mechanical amusement machines are offered for public use shall obtain an annual license and pay an annual license fee of $12 for- the…