Barr v. Warden of Maryland House of Correction

This is an application for leave to appeal from a denial of the writ of habeas corpus by Judge Herman Moser, of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City.

The petitioner was tried and convicted in the Criminal Court of Baltimore on November 11, 1951, on a charge of violation of the narcotic laws, and received a sentence of ten years in the House of Correction.

The petitioner complains that the evidence used against him was secured by an illegal search and seizure and was, therefore, inadmissible. Article 27, Section 368 of the Code (1951 Ed.) provides that in prosecutions in violation of narcotic…