Howard v. State

The Appellant, James Earl Howard, was convicted in the Criminal Court of Baltimore, in a non-jury trial, of receiving stolen goods and sentenced to four years in the Maryland Correctional Institution.

It appears that the prosecuting witness left her home for work at approximately 5 :30 a.m. on September 8, 1965. Upon her return at 2:45 p.m., she found that her house had been entered by ripping off the screen of her front screen door (both inner doors were unlocked) and that a stereo tape recorder, AM-FM portable radio, portable tape recorder, and a white j acket had been removed from the front…