Clayton v. State

On May 19, 1966 the appellant was convicted of violation of the lottery laws in the Criminal Court of Baltimore, Judge Joseph L. Carter presiding without a jury. He was sentenced to imprisonment for a term of eleven months and fined $1,000 and costs, consecutive.

The only contention raised on appeal from this judgment is that the search warrant was “executed too late.”

The appellant filed a motion to quash the warrant which included as a ground therefor that “the warrant is a stale warrant in that the probable cause for search of the so-called premises occurred more than 15 days prior to the…