Abstract
Mr. King is engaged in the practice of law in Washington, D. C. He has served as Counsel to several congressional committees, including the Senate Crime Committee. In 1952, Mr. King drafted the Model Anti-Gambling Act promulgated by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. From 1956 to 1959, he served as Chairman of the Joint Committee on Narcotic Drugs of the American Bar Association and the American Medical Association and is a former Chairman of the Criminal Law Section of the American Bar Association. He has contributed numerous articles in the field of criminal law to leading law journals. In the following article Mr. King traces the competing histories of coin-machine gambling and legal efforts to suppress it in the United States. The author documents in detail the legislative acts which have served to thwart coin-machine gambling and which sometimes have served to promote it. He also appraises current indicia regarding the future prospects for coin-machine gambling in the United States.-EDITOR.
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