Tischler v. State

Frank Joseph Tischler, a resident of Baltimore, appealed here from his convictions in the Criminal Court of Baltimore on two indictments charging violations of the statute prohibiting bookmaking on horse races, Code 1951, art. 27, sec. 306, and on one indictment charging violations of the statute prohibiting lotteries, Code 1951, art. 27, sec. 423.

On March 17, 1954, Lieut. Joseph J. Byrne, of the Baltimore City Police Department, presented to Judge Joseph L. Carter, of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, an affidavit alleging that there was probable cause to believe that the law against…