Dorbert v. State

The appellant was indicted and tried in the Criminal Court of Baltimore. The first count charged him with selling a lottery ticket to one Robert Thornton, On this count there was a verdict of acquittal. There were two other counts in the indictment; the second charging him with keeping a certain place for the purpose of selling lottery tickets, and the third with permitting a certain house, of which he was the owner, to be used as a place for the sale of such tickets. On these two counts there was a. verdict of guilty. The statute prohibits the keeping, or allowing to be kept, any house,…