MAZER v. STATE

[No. 43, October Term, 1956.]

212 Md. 60 (1956)

127 A.2d 630

MAZER v. STATE

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Motion for rehearing or modification of opinion filed January 8, 1957.

Motion for rehearing denied, and opinion modified, January 15, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alexander Stark, for appellant.

Stedman Prescott, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, with whom were C. Ferdinand Sybert, Attorney General, Anselm Sodaro, State's Attorney for Baltimore City, J. Harold Grady and Saul H. Harris, Assistant State's Attorneys, on the brief, for appellee.

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


HENDERSON, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

Robert M. Mazer was found guilty, in a trial by the court without a jury, on an indictment in four counts, the first of which charged unlawful possession on January 11, 1956, of cannabis, a narcotic drug popularly known as marihuana. After a motion for a new trial had been overruled by the Supreme Bench, he was sentenced to five years in the House of Correction. His appeal, among other points, challenges the sufficiency...

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