Ex parte Williams

Citations

• 7 Cal. Unrep. 301
• 87 P. 565
• 1906 Cal. App. LEXIS 348

Syllabus

<p>Gaming.—It is not a Crime, Under Penal Code, section 330, making it an offense to operate any banking or percentage game played with any device “for money, cheeks, credit or other representative of value,” to set up and operate a slot machine on which games are played, unless played for money, cheeks, credits or other representative of value, and, if played for something not included in these words, it is not a crime.1</p> <p>Gaming.—Penal Code, Section 330, Making It an Offense for anyone to operate any banking or percentage game played with any device for money, cheeks, credit, or other representative of value, adopted in 1872, prior to the existence of cigar slot machines, when considered in connection with section 331, prohibiting the use of any house for gambling, prohibited by section 330, and section 4, providing that the Penal Code is to be construed according to the fair import of its terms, does not make it an offense to operate a slot machine on which games are played for cigars.</p>