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SCHOWGUROW v. STATE

[No. 368, September Term, 1964.]

240 Md. 121 (1965)

213 A.2d 475

SCHOWGUROW v. STATE

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided October 11, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Grahame Walker (on both arguments), with whom was J. Gifford Scarborough on the brief, for the appellant.

Roger D. Redden, Assistant Attorney General (on both arguments), with whom were Thomas B. Finan, Attorney General, and Walter M. Baker, State's Attorney for Cecil County, on the brief, for the appellee.

OPPENHEIMER, J., delivered the majority opinion of the Court. HORNEY, J., dissents. Dissenting opinion at page 137, infra.

In this appeal by a Buddhist from a conviction of murder, we are confronted with the question of whether the provision of Article 36 of the Maryland Declaration of Rights that no person shall be deemed incompetent as a juror on account of religious belief "provided he believes in the existence of God" has been rendered unconstitutional...

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