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The state Supreme Court has ruled that a Lowndes County man should be given the chance to prove his slot machines confiscated in 1986 are collector's items, not gambling devices. A justice court judge ruled in 1986 that Charles Beatty's 16 slot machines seized on his property were gambling devices and should be destroyed as provided by law.The decision was upheld in county court and then in circuit court in June 1990. But Beatty appealed to the Supreme Court on grounds the machines were never used forgambling.

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State law was amended in 1992 to allow the possession of antique slot machines more than 25 years old, which can be seized as evidence in gambling cases but cannot be destroyed until the owner has a chance to prove the machines were not used for gambling. If a judge agrees, the machines can be returned to the owner.

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Justice Edwin Lloyd Pittman wrote in Wednesday's decision that even though the 1992 law was not in effect in 1986, it still applies to Beatty's case Pittman, in ordering a hearing on whether the machines should be returned to Beatty, said justices have ruled in past cases that when a law is amended it is treated as if were permanent law.

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Copyright Times Picayune Publishing Company Nov 28, 1993

The way it works is that those gleaming chrome- and nickel-plated machines with the little windows displaying fruits and bells are antique slot machines. The Robert Du Rose Coin Slot Machines store on San Gabriel Boulevard in Pasadena isn't a gambling parlor. It's a retail establishment.

[John Lewis] has a collection of several dozen in his showroom on San Gabriel Boulevard, one or two of them dating back to the last century. There are old "3 Jack" machines, which direct tossed pennies through a field of pins to possible payoffs in little pockets at the bottom. There are spinning wheel devices, push-pin bingo games and a wooden Indian with a torso consisting of a golden one-armed bandit.

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Of course, gambling machines have always lingered just beyond the edge of respectability. Politicians and prosecutors have made reputations with anti-slot campaigns, and much of Lewis' merchandise arrives at his shop with dents from sledgehammer blows inflicted by reformers and their deputies

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Houston slot machine collector and dealer Oscar Schneider Jr. heard about the cache almost by accident when a man called, wanting to buy an antique slot machine (antique machines are now legal to own).

``There was a man there with one for sale, and I asked the typical dumb question,'' he says - ``Is that thing legal?' Possession of antique slot machines became legal in 1977, and individuals could have a slot machine if it was built before 1940. Schneider bought the machine for $900 on the spot