STATE v. LAS CRUCES ELKS CLUB OF BEN. & PRO. ORDER

No. 5235.

215 P.2d 821 (1950)

54 N.M. 137

STATE v. LAS CRUCES ELKS CLUB OF BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS et al.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

March 1, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shipley & Shipley, Alamogordo, for appellants.

Joe L. Martinez, Attorney General, Walter R. Kegel, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.


LUJAN, Justice.

Following a raid by the Sheriff's force and members of the State Police on the club rooms of the intervenors in Las Cruces where a number of slot machines loaded with money were seized from a back room where they were for the time apparently stored, the District Attorney filed a petition in the District Court asking that they be ordered destroyed on the grounds that they were gambling paraphernalia, that their possession was unlawful under Section...

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