State v. Lingner

The traverser was charged, before the presiding magistrate at the Northern Police Station of Baltimore City, with “assaulting and kicking one Victoria Lingner in Baltimore City, State of Maryland, on November 20, 1943.” He pleaded not guilty thereto, was tried by the magistrate on the charge, convicted and fined $50 and costs, which he paid, and was discharged.

On November 24, 1943, an indictment was returned by the grand jury of the City of Baltimore, which charged that “Leon F. Lingner, on the 20th day of November, in the year of our Lord, 1943, at the City of Baltimore, aforesaid, in and…