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WELLS v. STATE

[No. 22, September Term, 1964.]

236 Md. 381 (1964)

203 A.2d 912

WELLS v. STATE

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided October 22, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard J. Kerpelman for the appellant.

R. Randolph Victor, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Thomas B. Finan, Attorney General, William J. O'Donnell and Stanley S. Cohen, State's Attorney and Assistant State's Attorney, respectively, for Baltimore City, on the brief, for the appellee.

The cause was argued before HENDERSON, C.J., and HAMMOND, PRESCOTT, HORNEY and MARBURY, JJ.

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

In this prosecution for a violation of the narcotic drugs statute, the principal questions on appeal relate to the legality of the arrest of the defendant (Ernest B. Wells), the legality of his punishment as a subsequent offender and the constitutionality of the sentence imposed on him as a multiple offender. Other questions concern the admissibility of an oral confession, the manner of its obtention, and its free and...

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