Burkett v. State

Dennis Furman Burkett and Thomas Calvin Burkett, the appellants, were convicted of storehouse breaking, Md. Code Art. 27, § 32, breaking and stealing to the value of $5 or more, Md. Code Art. 27, § 33 and being rogues and vagabonds, Md. Code Art. 27, § 490 in a nonjury trial in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County. Each appellant was sentenced to two years for being a rogue and vagabond and eight years consecutively for storehouse breaking. The sentence for breaking and stealing was suspended generally as to each. On appeal it is contended that a hammer and a chisel were illegally seized,…