Wright v. State

The appellants were indicted separately, but were tried together, and were convicted and sentenced in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County for selling a lottery ticket and possessing lottery tickets in violation of statute. Code, art. 27, secs. 336, 342.

On February 10th, 1939, the liquor store of Howard Wright, appellant, in Annapolis, was searched by police officers for evidence of a lottery. The officers did not see any violation of law in the store; but, finding a locked box under the counter, they arrested Wright under a “warrant of investigation” and brought the box along to police…