Franklin v. State

Appellant Franklin was convicted by the court sitting without a jury of unlawfully possessing heroin in violation of Maryland Code, Article 27, Section 277 1 and sentenced to one year in the Baltimore County Jail. On this appeal he contends that the evidence was legally insufficient to support the conviction.

There was evidence showing that on the night of July 22, 1968 appellant was, in some manner not disclosed by the record, brought into the emergency room at City Hospitals in a semi-conscious state.and unable to talk. The hospital physician then in attendance, Dr. Martin Levinson,…