BROOKS v. STATE

No. 539, September Term, 1974.

25 Md. App. 194 (1975)

333 A.2d 352

CHARLES BROOKS v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided March 14, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Russell D. Karpook, Assigned Public Defender, for appellant.

Albert Gallatin Warfield, III, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, Milton B. Allen, State's Attorney for Baltimore City and Ralph Murdy, Assistant State's Attorney for Baltimore City on the brief, for appellee.


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

The basic question presented in this appeal is whether an individual who enters a store while it is open to the public for business, secretes himself therein and then is apprehended after the closing hour under circumstances which indicate an intent to steal, can be convicted of storehouse breaking, Code, Art. 27, § 32.

Charles Brooks, a/k/a Charles Brice, was found guilty of breaking and entering after...

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