State v. Dycer
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal as upon writ of error from a judgment of the Circuit Court for Cecil County sustaining a demurrer to each count of the indictment in this case.
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Appeal as upon writ of error from a judgment of the Circuit Court for Cecil County sustaining a demurrer to each count of the indictment in this case. The indictment was as follows: The jurors of the State of Maryland, for the body of Cecil County, do on their oath present that Thomas Dycer, late of Cecil County aforesaid, on the 12th day of September, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, unlawfully did gamble and make books and pools on the result of a running race of horses at Cecil County aforesaid, then and there being held, the said gambling and making books and pools on the…
1Opinion of the CourtBryan, J.
Thomas Dycer was indicted in the Circuit Court for Cecil County on a charge of gambling, making books and pools in violation of the Act of 1894, chapter 232.
We will inquire into the meaning and effect of the statute before considering the structure of the indictment. Without repeating the somewhat elaborate language of the enactment it may be stated that it forbids acts of two descriptions. It declares that it shall' be unlawful for any person to gamble or to make books or pools on the result of a race of any kind; secondly, to use or knowingly suffer to be used any place for the purpose of…
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- Dill v. StateCourt of Special Appeals of Maryland · 1975
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