Roderick v. State

Appellant, a Maryland State Trooper, was convicted of larceny after trust for failure to return, after he had been suspended from duty, various items of personal property and effects which had been issued to him by the Department of Maryland State Police to be used in his official capacity as a law enforcement officer. In this appeal he contends that his conviction should be set aside since the State failed to prove a fraudulent conversion as required by the controlling statute, Md. Code, Art. 27, § 353. We agree.

The record shows that appellant, who had become a. State Trooper in 1956, was…