Bloombaum v. State

• Decision Date: 15 March 1965
• Docket Number: No. 152,152
• Citation: 207 A.2d 651,237 Md. 663
• Parties: Milton BLOOMBAUM v. STATE of Maryland.
• Court: Maryland Court of Appeals

Page 663

237 Md. 663

207 A.2d 651

Milton BLOOMBAUM v.STATE of Maryland.

No. 152.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

March 15, 1965.

Marvin Mandel, Baltimore, for appellant.

Richard M. Pollitt, Sp. Atty., Salisbury (Thomas B. Finan, Atty. Gen., Baltimore, Leonard T. Kardy and James F. Tomes, State's Atty. and Asst. State's Atty., respectively for Montgomery County, Rockville, on the brief), for appellee.

Before PRESCOTT, C. J., and HORNEY, SYBERT, OPPENHEIMER and BARNES, JJ.

PER CURIAM.

Appellant was convicted in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, under Information 5619, of unlawfully having in his possession and under his control a narcotic drug, and unlawfully having a hypodermic syringe and needle in his possession for the purpose of unlawfully administering habit-forming drugs.

Represented here by experienced and able counsel, appellant concedes that if his arrest were legal, his conviction was justified.

The exact attack on the arrest is not explicitly pinpointed, but it apparently is a claim that police officers arrested appellant without an arrest warrant and without probable cause to believe that a felony had been committed and that he committed it; and the arrest was not for a misdemeanor committed in the officers'...