Whitman v. State

The primary question on this appeal is whether appellant, Dannie Lee Whitman, who had been the subject of an arrest without probable cause, thereafter consented voluntarily to a search of his truck in which was found an illicit cargo of 9,156 cartons of cigarettes, in transit from North Carolina to New York.

The appeal was taken from a judgment of conviction upon a criminal information in the Circuit Court for Somerset County charging appellant with illegally transporting cigarettes without the required Maryland cigarette stamps and with possession of unstamped or improperly stamped…