McGuire v. State

The appellant in this case was convicted by a jury in the Criminal Court of Baltimore on the second count of an indictment charging conspiracy with one Morton J. Hess to violate the “laws of the State of Maryland relating to lotteries.” In his argument in this Court the appellant attacked the validity of the indictment, on the grounds that it was fatally defective in not specifiying the acts constituting a violation of the lottery laws, and that a charge of conspiracy will not lie where concert is necessary to the offense. Both of these points have been fully considered in the case of Hurwitz…