McKNIGHT v. STATE

[No. 149, September Term, 1976.]

280 Md. 604 (1977)

375 A.2d 551

JOHN LEE McKNIGHT, JR. v. STATE OF MARYLAND

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided July 6, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark Colvin, Assistant Public Defender, with whom was Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, on the brief, for appellant.

Gilbert Rosenthal, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, and Clarence W. Sharp, Assistant Attorney General, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before MURPHY, C.J., and SINGLEY, SMITH, DIGGES, LEVINE, ELDRIDGE and ORTH, JJ.


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

The question presented here is whether appellant should have been granted separate trials on four independent and distinct offenses, where evidence as to each individual offense would not have been mutually admissible at separate trials. We granted certiorari after the Court of Special Appeals, in affirming appellant's convictions by a jury in the Criminal Court of Baltimore under each of four criminal informations,...

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