Franklin v. State

The appellants, Franklin and Myers, together with one Pratt, were convicted by the court sitting without a jury of violations of the lottery laws. Motions were made before the trial to dismiss the indictments and to suppress as evidence the lottery paraphernalia which had been seized by the police in a room at Pratt’s home, and were denied, as was a motion made at the close of the case to strike from the evidence all of the lottery paraphernalia. Pratt was granted a new trial by the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City seemingly on the ground that his right of privacy as a householder had been…