Frank v. State

This is an appeal by Ben Frank and David Mazor from a judgment and sentence of the Circuit Court for Baltimore County on conviction on a criminal information, containing four counts, charging them with violating the law forbidding bookmaking. The case was tried by the Court, sitting as a jury. Appellants did not testify.

On a search warrant issued by a judge of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, Captain Alexander Emerson of the Baltimore City Police Force, accompanied by other officers, on June 12, 1947, went to the premises of the Merridale Riding Academy for the purpose of executing that…