Young v. State

We are confronted in this case with a question as to whether or not a police officer acted lawfully when he arrested the defendant without a warrant, and confiscated articles of property from an alleged accomplice, which were admitted as evidence against the defendant on his trial for larceny.

There is no dispute as to the facts concerning the arrest and seizure. In the evening of December 7, 1962, a security officer at a department store in Glen Burnie was notified by a store guard that “he had observed two suspects in the parking lot checking a number of cars [and] trying the door handles.”…