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SHIFFLETT v. STATE

[No. 488, September Term, 1966.]

245 Md. 169 (1967)

225 A.2d 440

SHIFFLETT v. STATE

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided January 10, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carmine J. Granese, Jr. for appellant.

Julius A. Romano, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Robert C. Murphy, Attorney General, Morton A. Sacks, Assistant Attorney General, Charles E. Moylan, Jr. and John Henry Lewin, Jr., State's Attorney and Assistant State's Attorney, respectively, for Baltimore City, and J. Thomas Nissel, State's Attorney for Howard County, on the brief for appellee.

The cause was argued before HAMMOND, C.J., and HORNEY, MARBURY, BARNES and McWILLIAMS, JJ.

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

In this case, involving the refusal of a witness called by the State to testify at the trial of an indictee charged with having solicited him to commit mayhem and murder, the question on appeal is whether or not Edward Everett Shifflett was in contempt of court when he refused to testify against the indictee.

According to the indictments, the person alleged to have been...

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