LAWS v. STATE

No. 193, September Term, 1968.

6 Md. App. 243 (1969)

251 A.2d 237

CLYDE EDWARD LAWS AND THOMAS FRANKLIN DORMAN A/K/A THOMAS FRANK DORMAN v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided March 10, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph E. O'Brien, Jr., for appellants.

Donald Needle, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, William A. Linthicum, Jr., State's Attorney for Montgomery County, and Andrew Sonner, Assistant State's Attorney for Montgomery County, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ANDERSON, MORTON, ORTH, and THOMPSON, JJ.


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

Clyde E. Laws and Thomas F. Dorman, the appellants, were convicted of kidnapping in the Circuit Court for Talbot County, Judges J. DeWeese Carter and Harry E. Clark presiding with a jury. The case had been removed from Montgomery County at the request of the appellants who were each sentenced to a term of twenty years. Questions on appeal will be set out hereinafter.

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