RAAB v. STATE, [NO NUMBER IN ORIGINAL], COURT OF APPEALS OF MARYLAND, 7 Md. 483; 1855 Md. LEXIS 15, JUNE, 1855, Decided. [The plaintiff in error was indicted in the Criminal Court of Baltimore city, for receiving stolen goods, (four yards of satin, of the value of eight
dollars,) knowing them to have been stolen. After plea of non cul. upon his affidavit and suggestion, the court removed his case to the Circuit
Court for Anne Arundel county, for trial, where he was tried and found guilty. The lower court judge was Nicholas Brewer; William Pinkney White and Reverdy Johnson appealed the case on the grounds that the Anne Arundel County court had no jurisdiction because AA Co did not border on Baltimore City (Baltimore County intervened). The Court of Appeals reversed the lower court, deciding that the whole of the Patapsco as it bordered AA Co. was in Baltimore County. ecp 1/17/01]
Biographical notes on Emanuel Raab.
Trial transcript from Anne Arundel County, sent to the Court of Appeals
For the laws governing change of venue in criminal cases, see the Debates of the Constitutional Convention, 1851 where it is argued that the law governing change of venue had not been changed since 1804.
Possible interpretation of why this case was brought before the Court of Appeals on the matter of jurisdiction:
See the debates of the Constitutional Convention re: the Constitution of 1851 when Delegate Randall from Anne Arundel County complains of the case load that could be unfairly transfered from Baltimore City to adjoining jurisdictions.
