Chernock v. State

This is an appeal by Morris Chernock, appellant, from a judgment and sentence, in a trial before the trial judge and a jury, entered upon a verdict of guilty on two counts of an indictment charging him with keeping a room for the sale of lottery tickets, and with the possession of lottery paraphernalia.

Before pleading to the indictment, appellant filed a motion to strike the entire petty jury panel assigned to the Criminal Courts of Baltimore City for the reason that the twenty-five jurors, constituting the jury panel, had been rendered “not impartial” because of their daily attendance as…