Owens v. State

Bryan, J.,

filed the following dissenting opinion:

The bills of exception make a very meagre statement of the facts of this case. We have not, however, any legitimate means of knowing what occurred at the trial in the Criminal Court, beyond what is stated in the record. We are strictly confined to that, and are obliged to foun'd our opinion exclusively upon what is therein stated. John Crawford, a witness for the State, testified that he was at the seventh precinct of the first ward of the City of Baltimore at the last municipal election; that he was there during the whole time the polls were…