Blake v. State

William Blake, the appellant, was convicted by a jury in Prince George’s County of unlawfully distributing a proscribed narcotic drug, to wit, heroin. Blake was sentenced by Judge William B. Bowie to a term of 6 years under the jurisdiction of the Department of Correctional Services.

Blake here assigns four reasons why the judgment of the trial court should be reversed, the reasons being:

I. A motion to dismiss and to suppress the evidence should have been granted because of an unreasonable time lag between the offense and Blake’s apprehension. The time lag allegedly “fatally impaired” Blake’s…