Kearney v. State
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Criminal Court of Baltimore City. . The appellant was indicted in the Court helow, for receiving United States five-twenty bonds knowing them to have been stolen. A demurrer to the indictment was overruled by the Court, (G-ilmor, J.,) and the case proceeded to a trial, and resulted in a verdict of guilty. Before any judgment was rendered the traverser appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtAlvey, J.
The motion to dismiss the appeal in this case must prevail.
There was no hill of exception taken in the trial of the cause, as authorized by the Act of 1872, ch. 316. An appeal is given by that Act in criminal cases, but only from rulings and determinations of the Court in the course of the trial, as is practiced in civil cases. But where bills of exceptions are taken, and an appeal is prosecuted under the Act, the final judgment is required to be withheld or suspended until the question presented hy the bills of exceptions are decided by the Court of Appeals. As no exceptions were taken no…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Whelan v. CookCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1868
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