WATKINS v. STATE

No. 404, September Term, 1968.

7 Md. App. 151 (1969)

253 A.2d 925

JOHN HENRY WATKINS v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided June 3, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard B. Gersh for appellant.

Thomas N. Biddison, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, Charles E. Moylan, Jr., State's Attorney for Baltimore City, and Robert C. Stewart, Assistant State's Attorney for Baltimore City, on the brief, for appellee.

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


PER CURIAM:

Appellant was convicted by the court sitting without a jury of unlawfully possessing heroin and cocaine and was sentenced to a total of four years imprisonment. He contends on this appeal that he was unlawfully arrested, and consequently evidence obtained from him at the time of his arrest was improperly admitted in evidence at the trial over his objection.

Detective John Sewell testified that at 9:20 a.m. on June 6, 1968, an informer, personally...

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