Gault v. State

In a trial before the court without a jury, the appellant was convicted on a charge of being a second offender under the narcotics drug law (Code (1957), Art. 27, Sec. 300). The facts are not in dispute. Early in the morning of August 12, 1962, three police officers went to 739 Newington Avenue in Baltimore City, armed with a warrant to arrest Jerry Long who had been charged with “serious assault.” Sergeant Smedberg and another officer went to the third floor apartment, where they were admitted by the owner, Shirley Bynum, and exhibited the warrant to the appellant and three other persons…