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SMITH v. STATE

No. 403, September Term, 1972.

17 Md. App. 217 (1973)

301 A.2d 54

DENNIS D. SMITH v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided February 26, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Eugene Schmidt for appellant.

Bernard A. Raum, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, Milton B. Allen, State's Attorney for Baltimore City, and Joseph Lyons, Assistant State's Attorney for Baltimore City, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before ORTH, C.J., and POWERS and SCANLAN, JJ.

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

This case concerns the right to a trial by jury of a person charged with offenses under the exclusive original jurisdiction of the District Court of Maryland.

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"Jury trial came to America with English colonists, and received strong support from them." Duncan v. Louisiana, 391 U.S. 145, 152. "To the Englishman of the fourteenth century ... it had already become...

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