Brown v. State
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Frederick County. The case is stated in the opinion of the Court. First Exception. — The traverser’s counsel, on cross-examination of the mother of the prosecutrix, asked the following question : “ Did you not tell Mrs. Brown that you had tried to get a service place for your daughter in Boonsboro’, but could not do so on account of her bad character?” The State objected to the asking of the question, and the Court (McSherry, C. J., and…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Frederick County. The case is stated in the opinion of the Court. First Exception. — The traverser’s counsel, on cross-examination of the mother of the prosecutrix, asked the following question : “ Did you not tell Mrs. Brown that you had tried to get a service place for your daughter in Boonsboro’, but could not do so on account of her bad character?” The State objected to the asking of the question, and the Court (McSherry, C. J., and Lynch and Vinson, A. J.) sustained the objection. The traverser excepted. Second Exception. — The same witness was asked the…
1Opinion of the CourtRobinson, J.
The traverser was indicted under section 1 of Article 21 of the Code, for enticing and persuading one Cora Laypold, a girl under eighteen years of age, from the custody and control of her parents “for the purposes of prostitution.”
At the trial below, quite a number of exceptions were taken, all of which however relate to the admissibility of certain evidence offered by the traverser. As to the first five -exceptions, it is sufficient to say that the evidence. was altogether irrelevant, and was therefore properly excluded. We cannot agree, however, with the Court in regard to the evidence…
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