O'BRIEN v. State

The appellant, Paul Stewart O’Brien, was tried by Judge Macgill, without a jury, in the Circuit Court for Howard County, and found guilty of storehouse breaking with intent to steal goods over the value of $100.00 or more. Article 27, Sec. 32, Maryland Code (1957), (1966 Cum. Supp.). O’Brien was sentenced to four years in the Maryland Penitentiary. This is an appéal from the judgment and sentence.

On the evening of June 29, 1965, the witness, John Scovitch, who resides on Washington Boulevard across from Mobern Electric Corporation, heard “banging noises” coming from the building occupied by…