Stearns v. State

The appellant was tried and convicted in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County under a criminal information filed by the State’s Attorney for that county for unlawfully gambling, contrary to the Act of 1894, chapter 232. The information contains five counts. The first charges the appellant with unlawfully gambling on the result of a certain trotting race or running race on the Sheepshead Bay race track, in the State of New York ; second, with unlawfully making books and pools on the result of a certain trotting race or running race of horses on the same race track; third, with unlawfully…