Hale v. State

The appellant was found guilty at a trial by the court in the Criminal Court of Baltimore of storehouse breaking with intent to steal goods of the value of $100 and upwards and sentenced to imprisonment for a term of 7 years to run concur rently with a sentence he was then serving. 1 On appeal from the judgment he contends that the evidence was not sufficient to sustain his conviction and that his arrest was illegal.

The corpus delicti of the crime was proved by a stipulation that Louis Patti would testify that he was the owner of the storehouse designated in the indictment; that he closed the…