POFF v. STATE

No. 276, September Term, 1967.

4 Md. App. 186 (1968)

241 A.2d 898

JOHN PRESTON POFF v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided May 16, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. Mitchell for appellant.

Bernard L. Silbert, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, Arthur A. Marshall, Jr., State's Attorney for Prince George's County, and Benjamin Wolman, Assistant State's Attorney for Prince George's County, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ANDERSON, MORTON, ORTH, and THOMPSON, JJ.


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

John Preston Poff, the appellant, was convicted of storehouse breaking in the Circuit Court for Prince George's County, Judge Roscoe H. Parker presiding with a jury. Poff complains that the conviction for storehouse breaking instead of breaking a "dwelling" was contrary to law; that he was subject of a police entrapment; that he was prejudiced in the eyes of the jury by the arrest of his wife in the courtroom while...

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