Mims Amusement Co. v. South Carolina Law Enforcement Division

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• citing, among other cases, State ex rel. Brett v. Four Bell Fruit Gum Slot Machines, 1945 OK 261, 162 P.2d 539, ordering the forfeiture of illegal slot machines
• stating this Court may decide a novel question of law based on its own assessment of the reasoning that best comports with the law, public policy, and the Court’s sense of law, justice, and right
• \[T]he legality of a particular machine must be determined on an individual basis at the time of seizure and examination.\
• contraband per se is illegal to possess and therefore not susceptible of ownership while derivative contraband is ordinarily legal to possess but forfeitable if an instrumentality of a crime
• \The right to a trial by jury is guaranteed in every case in which the right to a jury was secured at the time of the adoption of the Constitution in 1868.\
• “The right to a trial by jury is guaranteed in every case in which the right to a jury was secured at the time of the adoption of the Constitution in 1868.”

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