Lingner v. State

This is an appeal from a judgment rendered as the result of a verdict of guilty, by a jury, in a trial of appellant on the charge of unlawful possession of lottery books, lists, slips and numbers.- -

Appellant contends that his arrest was unlawful and therefore two bags and the-contents thereof, seized, as a- result of the unlawful arrest, were not admissible in evidence- against him.

On August 31, 1951, about 2:30 P.M., Sergeant Cohen of the Baltimore City Police Departments with another officer,- both in plain clothes, was in a private automobile in Baltimore and saw a Plymouth automobile…