Oden v. State

John W. Oden, the appellant, David L. Oden and Daniel J. Lawler were charged with attempting to break and enter a drugstore in Baltimore County. They were tried before the court, sitting without a jury, and were found guilty, and each was sentenced to confinement in the Maryland Reformatory for Males for not more than five years. John W. Oden alone appeals. He contends that burglar’s tools found by the police in the trunk of Lawler’s car were improperly admitted in evidence against him and that the evidence against him was insufficient to warrant conviction.

At about 2:45 A.M. on July 28,…