Johnson v. State

The appellant, William Johnson, was convicted of storehouse breaking with intent to steal goods of the value of one hundred dollars ($100) or more (Md. Code, Art. 27, sec. 32) and sentenced to serve five years.

At approximately 2:20 a.m., on December 16, 1967, the appellant was found in the Purple Heart Thrift Store by the police and a representative of a burglar alarm company who were there in response to the sounding of a silent alarm. The appellant was lying face down in a rear aisle on the first floor of the building. The representative of the alarm company testified that entrance had been…