BRAXTON v. STATE

No. 408, September Term, 1970.

11 Md. App. 435 (1971)

274 A.2d 647

WILLIAM B. BRAXTON v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided March 16, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David B. Allen for appellant.

Clarence W. Sharp, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, Howard L. Cardin, State's Attorney for Baltimore City, and Anton Keating and Arrie W. David, Assistant State's Attorneys for Baltimore City, on the brief, for appellee.

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


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

Standing trial before a jury in the Criminal Court of Baltimore on charges of robbing each of Edward Brown and Jessie Peoples with a deadly weapon on 8 March 1970, William Benjamin Braxton called Albert Johnson to testify on his behalf. Johnson said he had known Braxton for 16 months, was familiar with the neighborhood in which he lived and knew "his reputation for honesty and truthfulness in the community in which he...

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