Anderson v. State

The petitioner, Alvin Leon Anderson, protests the pretrial denial of his motion to suppress evidence, the introduction of which resulted in his conviction in the Criminal Court of Baltimore of a handgun violation. Md. Code (1957, 1976 Repl. Vol.), Art. 27, § 36B (b). The handgun was discovered when police officers investigating a robbery committed six days earlier by two black males, one tall and one short, without any preliminary inquiry stopped and frisked two black males, one of whom — the petitioner — was three to five inches shorter than the other. The two when stopped were walking in a…