GA 16-12-24 - GA 16-12-24

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Editor's notes. - In light of the similarity of the statutory provisions, decisions under former Code 1933, § 26-6502, as it read prior to revision of the title by Ga. L. 1968, p. 1249, are included in the annotations for this Code section. Possession of gambling devices and equipment and operating a gambling place are separate offenses. - Although arising from the same transaction, offenses of possession of gambling devices and equipment, and commercial gambling by operating a gambling place, are separate and distinct. Baxter v. State, 134 Ga. App. 286 , 214 S.E.2d 578 , cert. denied, 423 U.S. 895, 96 S. Ct. 194 , 46 L. Ed. 2 d 127 (1975). Slot machine as gambling device. - An apparatus, known as a "slot machine," by which a person depositing money therein may, by chanc...