COUSER v. STATE

[No. 43, September Term, 1969.]

256 Md. 393 (1970)

260 A.2d 334

COUSER v. STATE OF MARYLAND

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided January 8, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Franklin Goldstein for appellant.

Francis X. Pugh, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, and Edward F. Borgerding, Assistant Attorney General, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before HAMMOND, C.J., and McWILLIAMS, FINAN, SINGLEY and DIGGES, JJ.


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

We are here presented with the issue of double jeopardy.

On April 9, 1969, this Court issued a writ of certiorari to the Court of Special Appeals. The petitioner, John Couser, had been convicted under two separate robbery indictments involving the same incident and was sentenced to serve two ten year terms which were to run consecutively. The trial was conducted in the Criminal Court of Baltimore without...

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