MORGAN v. STATE

No. 324, Initial Term, 1967.

2 Md. App. 440 (1967)

234 A.2d 762

ELMER JOSEPH MORGAN, JR. v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided November 16, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raymond E. Pryor for appellant.

Bernard A. Silbert, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, Frank A. DeCosta, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Charles E. Moylan, Jr., State's Attorney for Baltimore City, and James B. Dudley, Assistant State's Attorney for Baltimore City, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was submitted to MURPHY, C.J., and ANDERSON, MORTON, ORTH, and THOMPSON, JJ.


MURPHY, C.J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

Appellant was convicted on December 20, 1966 by the court sitting without a jury of possessing a narcotic drug and was sentenced to three years in the Maryland House of Correction. He contends on this appeal that his arrest without a warrant was unlawful and that the narcotic paraphernalia taken from him by police following his arrest was improperly admitted in evidence at the trial.

The arrest was made under...

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