Scarlett V. State

Austin Scarlett, a Negro, of Baltimore, was tried in the Criminal Court of Baltimore in December, 1950, on three indictments
charging violations of the lottery laws. He was acquitted of those charges. In December, 1951, he and Harry Gross and Horace
B. Cann were tried on an indictment charging that on January 1, 1947, and thence continually until August 20, 1951, they unlawfully
conspired together and with certain other persons to violate the lottery laws of the State of Maryland.