Baum v. State

The appeal in this case is from a conviction of the appellants of violation of section 247 of article 27 of the Code, which makes it unlawful for persons, associations, or corporations within the State of Maryland to “bet, wage or gamble in any manner, or by any means, or to make or sell a book or pool on the result of any trotting, pacing or running race of horses or other beasts, or race, contest or contingency of any kind, or to establish, keep, rent, use or occupy or knowingly suffer to be used, kept or rented or occupied, any house, building, vessel, grounds or place, or portion of any…