BATES v. STATE

No. 1188, September Term, 1975.

32 Md. App. 108 (1976)

359 A.2d 106

KENNETH WILBUR BATES v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided June 25, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael S. Elder, Assistant Public Defender, with whom was Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, on the brief, for appellant.

Bernard A. Raum, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, Arthur A. Marshall, Jr., State's Attorney for Prince George's County, and Leonard L. Casalino, Assistant State's Attorney for Prince George's County, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before FREDERICK J. SINGLEY, JR., and J. DUDLEY DIGGES, Associate Judges of the Court of Appeals of Maryland and JAMES S. GETTY, Associate Judge of the Fourth Judicial Circuit, all specially assigned.


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

Kenneth Wilbur Bates, convicted of storehouse breaking and grand larceny by a Prince George's County jury, raises but one issue on appeal: whether his written confession was improperly admitted into evidence. Consideration of this contention requires a summary of the circumstances which led to Bates' arrest.

On 18 November 1974, a breaking and entering occurred at Weaver's Texaco, a gasoline service station...

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