BROOKS v. STATE

[No. 252, September Term, 1963.]

235 Md. 23 (1964)

200 A.2d 177

BROOKS v. STATE

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided May 7, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Franklyn Bourne for appellant.

Russell R. Reno, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Thomas B. Finan, Attorney General, Arthur A. Marshall, Jr. and James H. Taylor, State's Attorney and Assistant State's Attorney, respectively, for Prince George's County, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before BRUNE, C.J., and HAMMOND, HORNEY, MARBURY and SYBERT, JJ.


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

The principal question presented by this appeal is whether a search incident to one offense justified the seizure of items connected with another offense.

About 10:30 in the morning of February 27, 1962, the defendant (Alfonso Arkell Brooks, Jr.) went to the home of Margaret Griffith in Upper Marlboro, asked her where someone lived and told her he was interested in buying race horses. At that time she observed...

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