Case Name: Commonwealth v. A Certain Gambling Device (Cowell, Appellant.)
Court: Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1943-01-28
Citations: 151 Pa. Super. 346
Docket Number: Appeal, No. 133
Parties: Commonwealth v. A Certain Gambling Device (Cowell, Appellant.).
Judges: Before Keller, P. J., Cunningham, Baldrige, Rhodes, Hirt and Kenworthey, JJ.
Reporter: Pennsylvania Superior Court Reports
Volume: 151
Pages: 346–347

Head Matter:
Commonwealth v. A Certain Gambling Device (Cowell, Appellant.).
Argued October 29, 1942.
Before Keller, P. J., Cunningham, Baldrige, Rhodes, Hirt and Kenworthey, JJ.
Lemuel B. Schofield, with him Owen M. Burns and M. E. Graham, for appellant.
Burton R. Laub, District Attorney, with him D. J. McLaughlin, Asst. District Attorney, for appellee.
January 28, 1943:

Opinion:
Opinion by
Kenworthey, j.,
The facts in this ease are identical in all material respects with the facts in Wigton's Return, 151 Pa. Superior Ct. 337, and the cases were argued together.
The court below, largely on the basis of its interpretation of our decision in Urban's Appeal, 148 Pa. Superior Ct. 101, 24 A. (2d) 756, held the pin-ball machine here involved a device used for the purpose of gambling and declared it forfeit and directed it be destroyed.
What we have said in the Wigton Case demonstrates that we do not consider Urban's Appeal controlling and that there is insufficient evidence to sustain the finding.
The order is therefore reversed, costs to be paid by the Commonwealth.