Legal Opinion
Woodruff v. State
Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
Decided February 9, 1971No. 42, September Term, 1970PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Moylan, J.,
delivered the majority opinion of the Court. Anderson, Orth, and Powers, JJ., dissent. Dissenting opinion by Orth, J., in which Anderson and Powers, JJ., concur, at page 230 infra.
The appellant, Marshall Emerson Woodruff, was the twenty-five-year-old owner and operator of a small store, called The Joint Possession, in College Park, Maryland, which specialized in selling leather goods, posters and other objects of interest primarily to young people, including several varieties of underground newspapers. On June 23, 1969, a Prince George’s County policeman purchased from a sales…
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