Brown v. State

Calvin Brown, the appellant, complains of a conviction for two separate sales of narcotics and two separate convictions for the possession and control of narcotics after a jury trial in the Criminal Court of Baltimore before Judge Joseph Carter. The allegations as to errors will be hereinafter set out.

Officer Walter Zimmerer, acting as an undercover agent, in cooperation with the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, was introduced to Brown on August 26, 1965, through an intermediary known only to Officer Zimmerer as “Catfish.” Brown, in exchange for ten dollars, produced packages of a white powder…