Ellingham v. State

The appellant in this case was employed as a telegraph operator by the General News Bureau, Incorporated, and was convicted of acting as its agent in ]\ Dryland, contrary to section 121 of article 23 of the Code, when it had not complied, as a foreign corporation, with the requirements of the state law. As in Vogel v. State, 163 Md. 267, 162 A. 705, with which this case was argned, there is an exception to an advisory instruction classifying the appellant, under the evidence, as an agent within the purview of the statute. In our judgment, the evidence in the record does not prove conclusively…