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MATTHEWS v. STATE

No. 42, September Term, 1974.

23 Md. App. 59 (1974)

325 A.2d 897

MURTICE MATTHEWS A/K/A ERNESTINE BROWN v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided October 14, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allan P. Feigelson, Assigned Public Defender, with whom were Powers & Feigelson on the brief, for appellant.

George A. Eichhorn, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, Harry A.E. Taylor, Assistant Attorney General, Milton B. Allen, State's Attorney for Baltimore City and Sandra O'Connor, Assistant State's Attorney for Baltimore City, on the brief, for appellee.

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

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

This appeal is primarily concerned with the duty of a trial judge to reveal to the parties that a witness, in an aside, related to the judge certain information exculpatory to the accused, and then testified to the contrary.

Murtice Matthews,1 a self-confessed prostitute, was charged with the robbery with a dangerous and deadly weapon of Willie Reaves. At a jury trial in the Criminal...

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