Case ID: md_83/html/0648-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Roberts, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

ISAAC S. SANNER vs. THE STATE OF MARYLAND.
    No. 18,
    April term, 1896.
    Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas.
    
      Reversed without a new trial.
    
    An action was brought by the State to recover from the defendant informers’ fees in- cases of fines imposed pn persons convicted of keeping bawdy-houses between November 23, 1892, and November 23, 1893, the defendant having been at that time sheriff of Baltimore City, and his name having been endorsed on the indictments as informer. Held, that since under Code, Art. 38, sec. 2, the State had no interest in the fines so imposed this action could not be maintained.
    
      Wm. Pinkney Whyte and Wm. S. Bryan, Jr., for the appellant.
    
      Robt. Ludlow Preston for the appellee.
   Opinion by

Roberts, J.

Recorded in Liber J. S. F., No. 2, etc., folio 815, of “ Opinions Unreported.”