State v. Sedacca

The appellee, Morris Sedacca, was convicted in the Circuit Court for Harford County (Dyer, J.), without a jury, of transportation and possession of untaxed cigarettes in violation of Code (1957), Article 81, Section 455. Sedacca raised three defenses in the trial court, i.e., (1) that the statute was unconstitutional on its face, (2) that the statute was unconstitutional as applied to him in the pending case, and (3) that the search and seizure of the cigarettes on November 12, 1965 was an unreasonable and unconstitutional search and seizure so that the cigarettes as evidence against him…