California Court of Appeal

The mere use of electronic vending machines to dispense lottery tickets does not transform the lawful sale of lottery tickets into an unlawful use of slot machines, under Penal Code section 330b and 330.1, where the machines inject no additional element of chance into the determination or distribution of the winning lottery ticket.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/04/2003
• Published 02/04/2003

Judges

• BLEASE, Acting P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
•  Estrada & Thomson, William D. Thomson, Livermore, for Plaintiff and Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Kronick, Moskovitz, Tiedemann & Girard, Paul W. Tozer, Robin Leslie Stewart and Susan R. Denious, Sacramento, for Defendant and Respondent.