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COPELAND AND COVINGTON v. STATE

No. 1055, September Term, 1974.

27 Md. App. 397 (1975)

340 A.2d 355

EDWARD A. COPELAND AND WILLIE D. COVINGTON v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided July 1, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanley H. Miller, Assigned Public Defender, for appellants.

James G. Klair, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, James I. Keane, Assistant Attorney General, William A. Swisher, State's Attorney for Baltimore City, and Edward Wenck, Assistant State's Attorney for Baltimore City, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before THOMPSON, GILBERT and MOORE, JJ.

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

The facts arising in the trial that led to this appeal are best characterized as bizarre. The record reveals that Willie D. Covington and Edward A. Copeland were called to trial on September 9, 1974, in the Criminal Court of Baltimore, to answer to charges of robbery with a deadly weapon and related offenses. As a result of the trial the appellants each received sentences...

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