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PEOPLE v. ONE MECHANICAL DEVICE

Gen. No. 10,864.

9 Ill. App.2d 38 (1956)

132 N.E.2d 338

People of State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. One Mechanical Device or Machine Designated as Bally Dude Ranch, Serial No. C-2603, and More Commonly Called a Pinball Machine, and Elmer C. Hallgren et al., d/b/a H & H Music Company, and Kenneth Taylor, Defendants-Appellants.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Second District.

Rehearing denied February 14, 1956.

Released for publication March 9, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francis J. Coyle, Sam M. Arndt, and Crowley, Sprecher & Weeks, all of Rock Island, for defendants-appellants.

Bernard J. Moran, State's Attorney, Rock Island County, of Rock Island, for plaintiff-appellee; Henry W. McNeal, of Rock Island, of counsel.

JUSTICE CROW delivered the opinion of the court.

On July 9, 1954 the State's Attorney for Rock Island County petitioned the Circuit Court requesting an order directing him to destroy a certain pinball machine. The petition stated that the machine had been seized by a police officer and turned over to the State's Attorney, and that it was a device upon which money is staked, hazarded, bet, won, or lost, and was manufactured...

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