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GIBSON v. STATE

[No. 108, October Term, 1953.]

204 Md. 423 (1954)

104 A.2d 800

GIBSON v. STATE

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided May 5, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Albert B. Mosebach, with whom were Brown & Mosebach on the brief, for the appellant.

Ambrose T. Hartman, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Edward D.E. Rollins, Attorney General, and J. Albert Roney, Jr., State's Attorney for Cecil County, on the brief, for the appellee.

The cause was argued before BRUNE, C., J., and DELAPLAINE, COLLINS, HENDERSON and HAMMOND, JJ.

BRUNE, C.J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

The appellant was indicted by the Grand Jury for Cecil County for "making book" on a horse race. The date of his alleged offense was August 22, 1953. When called to the stand, he admitted that he had been "making book" for some years; but he contended that bookmaking was not then unlawful in Cecil County. The trial judge overruled appellant's motion to dismiss the indictment...

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