Youngstown City v. Harper

OPINION

By PHILLIPS, J.

By amended ordinance numbered 62500, captioned “Amending Section 14.11 of the Revised Ordinances of the City of Youngstown, Ohio,— 1952, and repealing existing Section 14.11 of said Ordinances” plaintiff city amended that section effective February 13, 1952, and prohibited the possession of “pools, lottery, policy, scheme of chance, money, property or thing of value,” or any “apparatus, device, sheets, slips, or tickets, or books of any kind designed and used for the purpose of facilitating, enabling or assisting in gambling.”

After the effective date of Amended Section…