Jenkins v. State

On February 1, 1963, the proprietor of a small neighborhood grocery store in east Baltimore was robbed after he had been brutally and sadistically murdered behind the meat counter of his store by being hit on the head with a soft drink bottle, stabbed repeatedly with a knife and having his head and face split by a meat cleaver. Two days later the police arrested the appellant, David Jenkins, also known as David Bladen, on the street near the store. Jenkins had formerly lived across from the store and had been a customer. The police, it would seem, had probable cause to believe the appellant…