Novak v. State

The appellant was found guilty in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, by the court sitting without a jury, of violating Code, 1951, Art. 27, Sec. 306,- on testimony showing him to have been the runner or pick-up man for a bookmaking establishment.

He argues (1) that the evidence was legally insufficient to sustain the conviction under Sec. 306 of Art. 27, since, at the worst, it showed him to have forwarded or to have agreed to forward money to pay bets already lost,, and the statute proscribes only the forwarding of, or the agreeing to forward, money to be bet; (2) that at most it was…