Case Name: ISAAC S. SANNER vs. THE STATE OF MARYLAND
Court: Court of Appeals of Maryland
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Decision Date: 1896-04
Citations: 83 Md. 648
Docket Number: No. 18
Parties: ISAAC S. SANNER vs. THE STATE OF MARYLAND.
Judges: 
Reporter: Maryland Reports
Volume: 83
Pages: 648–648

Head Matter:
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:
Opinion by
Roberts, J.
Recorded in Liber J. S. F., No. 2, etc., folio 815, of " Opinions Unreported."