RUCKER v. STATE

[Nos. 21-22, October Term, 1950.]

196 Md. 334 (1950)

76 A.2d 572

RUCKER v. STATE BAILEY v. STATE (Two Appeals in Separate Records)

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided November 15, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Submitted on brief by Joseph D. Winer for the appellants.

Kenneth C. Proctor, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Hall Hammond, Attorney General, and John H.T. Briscoe, State's Attorney for St. Mary's County, on the brief, for the appellee.

The cause was argued before MARBURY, C.J., and DELAPLAINE, COLLINS, HENDERSON and MARKELL, JJ.


DELAPLAINE, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

Joseph Edward Rucker and Samuel S. Bailey were separately indicted, tried and convicted in the Circuit Court for St. Mary's County on the charge of having lottery tickets in their possession. Code 1939, art. 27, sec. 411. The Court sentenced each defendant to serve in the Maryland House of Correction for a term of six months and to pay a fine of $100. The appeals are from the judgments of conviction.

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