State v. O'Hora

MORRIS, Judge.

The undisputed evidence of the State tends to show that an informer (shown by the record to be reliable) gave a police officer a tip that a person named “Andy,” with bushy hair, mustache, burn on chest, and blue eyes, driving a blue Dodge panel truck with Maryland license, and living at 5228 Valley Stream Road, had sold the informer $15 worth of marijuana. The officer secured a search warrant on the strength of this information and proceeded to the location some 12 to 15 hours later at 4:00 a.m. with several other officers. The officers knocked at defendant’s door, defendant…