Sands v. State

Once again we are obliged to set aside convictions because evidence obtained by a search and seizure incident to a warrantless arrest was admitted without the prosecution sufficiently establishing that the arrest was valid. See Winebrenner v. State, 6 Md. App. 440.

James E. Sands 1 (appellant) was found guilty at a court trial in the Criminal Court of Baltimore of breaking the dwelling house of Bernard A. Ward situate at 2301 Monticello Road on 6 February 1969 in the daytime with intent to steal and of grand larceny of Ward’s goods on the same date. He filed a pre-trial motion to suppress…