KEYES v. STATE

[No. 331, September Term, 1963.]

236 Md. 74 (1964)

202 A.2d 582

KEYES v. STATE

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided July 23, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

D. Franklin McGinnis for appellant.

Robert J. Martineau, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Thomas B. Finan, Attorney General, and Edwin H.W. Harlan, Jr., State's Attorney for Harford County, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before HENDERSON, PRESCOTT, HORNEY and SYBERT, JJ., and KEATING, J., Associate Judge of the Second Judicial Circuit, specially assigned.


KEATING, J., by special assignment delivered the opinion of the Court.

In this case a seventeen year old defendant appeals his conviction of the statutory misdemeanor (punishable by confinement in the penitentiary) of burning a barn. He was tried by the lower court without a jury, found guilty and sentenced to six years in the Maryland Institution for Men. He alleges five errors which we will consider seriatim.

First, he claims that a series of confessions...

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