Huger v. State

John Earl Huger was convicted at a court trial in the Criminal Court of Baltimore of shoplifting goods of Giant of Maryland, Inc. On direct appeal, the judgment entered against him was affirmed by the Court of Special Appeals. Huger v. State, No. 410, September Term, 1978, decided 27 November 1978, unreported. We granted Huger’s petition for a writ of certiorari. We affirm the judgment of the Court of Special Appeals.

Huger was arrested by Antonio P. Silva, who was employed by Giant as a special policeman. On 1 July 1977, Silva, working as a detective in Giant’s Reisterstown Road store,…