Parker v. State

After two days of observing an individual later identified as Walter T. Parker, appellant, in activities which he took to be writing numbers, and after himself placing bets on four numbers with appellant, Officer Luther Bond of the Baltimore City Police Department obtained a search and seizure warrant, and on January 24, 1970 arrested appellant, and searched the area in which the arrest was made.

The scene of the suspected activities and of the arrest was an area known informally as the “cage”, which was an open, semi-public part of the premises of the Diamond Cab Company at 1920 Ashburton…