# Sugarman v. State

> Court of Appeals of Maryland · October 29, 1937 · 173 Md. 52

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/3489332

## Case

- **Full name:** George Sugarman v. . State of Maryland
- **Court:** Court of Appeals of Maryland
- **Decided:** October 29, 1937
- **Citations:** 173 Md. 52; 195 A. 324; 1937 Md. LEXIS 284
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Urner
- **Judges:** Bond, Urner, Ofputt, Parke, Sloan, Mitchell, Shehan, Johnson
- **Cited by:** 68 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- **Yellow flag:** Questioned by Watkins v. State, 288 Md. 597 (1980).
- Negative treatments: 1
- Distinguished by: 1
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/3489332

## Opinion text

Urner, J.,
filed a dissenting opinion as follows, in which Bond,, C. J., concurred.
I have been unable to agree with the conclusion that the defendant’s second arrest was without legal justification. In my judgment his statements and offers, while accompanying the officer after his first arrest, and his significant conduct, were equivalent to an admissipn that
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he was committing the misdemeanor of which he was evidently suspected, and were sufficient to bring his rearrest, by the same officer, within the principle of the decisions in
Heyward, v. State,
161 Md. 685, 693 , 158 A. 897 , and
Blager v. State,
162 Md. 664 , 161 A. 1 . The torn lottery ticket secreted in the cell which the defendant occupied, and the other similar tickets found along the course of his flight from the officer’s original custody, as well as those discovered in his automobile, were, I think, under the circumstances, properly admitted in evidence.
Callahan v. State,
163 Md. 298 , 162 A. 856 .

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