Smith v. State

On April 6, 1966 appellant was tried in the Criminal Court •of Baltimore before Judge Joseph L,. Carter, presiding without a jury, under a two count indictment charging illegal possession and control of narcotics and on an addendum thereto ■charging him with being a third offender. He was found guilty generally of the charges in the indictment and guilty under the addendum and sentenced to ten years imprisonment.

Appellant, an inmate in the Maryland Penitentiary, was searched by a correctional officer of the institution in accordance with a standard procedure of searching inmates as they came…