Carter v. State

This is an appeal from convictions of the appellants by the Criminal Court of Baltimore for illegal possession of narcotics. The appellants were passengers in a car owned and operated by Calvin Foote. Four police officers came up while Foote’s car was parked at a curb. They searched the car, with Foote’s permission, and found a piece of paper containing six bags of heroin beneath the right front seat of the car where the appellant, Carter, was sitting. Foote and the appellants were searched but nothing incriminating was found on any of their persons. Subsequently, at the police station, the…