Ross v. State

Smith and O’Donnell, JJ., dissent and Smith, J., filed a dissenting opinion in which O’Donnell, J., concurs at page 675 infra.

This appeal stems from a conviction in the Criminal Court of Baltimore where a jury found appellant guilty of the crime of unlawfully possessing heroin with intent to distribute the same. Following affirmance of the conviction by the Court of Special Appeals in Ross v. State, 24 Md. App. 246, 330 A. 2d 507 (1975), we granted a writ of certiorari. Our review is limited “solely to the question whether the admission into evidence of testimony by an informer relating to…