Graham v. State

Appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree, without capital punishment, by a jury in the Circuit Court for Worcester County and sentenced to life imprisonment. His previous conviction of the same crime had been affirmed by the Court of Appeals of Maryland, Graham v. State, 239 Md. 521, and subsequently set aside by this Court in a Post Conviction proceeding, Graham v. Warden, 2 Md. App. 422, on the basis of Schowgurow v. State, 240 Md. 121.

Appellant first contends that there was no probable cause for his warrantless arrest and, accordingly, asserts that a pistol seized by the…