Long v. State
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal as upon Writ oe Error, from the Criminal Court of Baltimore. The case is stated in the opinion of the Court. The cause was argued for the appellant before Alvey, C. J., Robinson, Irving, Bryan, Fowler, McSherry, and Briscoe, J., and submitted on brief for the appellee. The making of gifts, as an inducement to the sale of goods, hy a scheme or device not contrary to the lottery law, is a harmless act, and cannot he made an offence hy legislation.
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Appeal as upon Writ oe Error, from the Criminal Court of Baltimore. The case is stated in the opinion of the Court. The cause was argued for the appellant before Alvey, C. J., Robinson, Irving, Bryan, Fowler, McSherry, and Briscoe, J., and submitted on brief for the appellee. The making of gifts, as an inducement to the sale of goods, hy a scheme or device not contrary to the lottery law, is a harmless act, and cannot he made an offence hy legislation. Toledo, W. &B. Co. vs. City of Jacksonville, 67 HI., 37, 40. “If the distribution is a pure gift or bounty, and not in name or pretence…
1Opinion of the Court
Bowler, <L,
delivered the opinion of the Court.
The plaintiff in error, Calvin Long, was indicted in the Criminal Court of Baltimore for violating the Act of Assembly of 1886, chapter 480, which has been codified as- ' section 185 of Article 21 of the Code, and which reads as follows :
“No person or body corporate shall he permitted, either directly or indirectly, by agent or otherwise, to barter, sell, trade, or to offer for barter, sale or trade, by any publication, or in any way, any wares, goods or merchandise of any description, in package or bulk, holding out as an inducement for any such…
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