Miller v. State

Harry Miller, sometimes otherwise known as Harry Morris, born Philip Amolsky, was convicted in the Criminal Court of Baltimore City of the crime of maintaining and operating an establishment for gambling on horse races, contrary to the form of Code, art. 27, sec. 247, and from the judgment on that verdict he took this appeal.

In the course of the trial the State, over the defendant’s objection, was permitted to introduce in evidence certain papers called in the argot of the business “run down sheets,” “race horse bet slips,” a number of pads of paper, and several telephone sets, which were…