State v. Mather

Murphy, C.J.,

delivered the majority opinion of the Court. Orth, J., concurs. Concurring opinion by Orth, J., at page 555 infra.

The question here to be decided is whether the State has the right to appeal to this court from the granting of the defendant’s pretrial motion to suppress evidence alleged by him to have been obtained as a result of an unlawful search and seizure.

Appellee Mather was charged in Prince George’s County with unlawfully having caused the termination of a human pregnancy in violation of Chapter 470 of the Acts of 1968, now codified as Sections 149E-149G of Article 43 of…