BURRELL v. STATE

[No. 157, October Term, 1954.]

207 Md. 278 (1955)

113 A.2d 884

BURRELL ET AL. v. STATE (Two Appeals In One Record)

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided May 17, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ernest L. Perkins, with whom were William H. Murphy and Donald G. Murray on the brief, for appellants.

James H. Norris, Jr., Special Assistant to the Attorney General, with whom were C. Ferdinand Sybert, Attorney General, Anselm Sodaro, State's Attorney for Baltimore City, and James W. Murphy, Assistant State's Attorney, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before BRUNE, C.J., and DELAPLAINE, COLLINS, HENDERSON and HAMMOND, JJ.


HAMMOND, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

With the aid of evidence secured through a search warrant, appellants were convicted of violation of the lottery laws in the Criminal Court of Baltimore by the court sitting without a jury. They duly moved to quash the warrant and to suppress the evidence, and the court denied the motion. The claim was that Harriet Smith Burns, one of the appellants, whose observed actions constituted much of the basis of the probable...

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