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BLONDES v. STATE

[No. 43, September Term, 1974.]

273 Md. 435 (1975)

330 A.2d 169

BLONDES v. STATE OF MARYLAND

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided January 9, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph B. Simpson, Jr., with whom were Vivian V. Simpson, Joseph J. D'Erasmo and Simpson & Simpson on the brief, for appellant.

James G. Klair, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, and Clarence W. Sharp, Assistant Attorney General, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before SINGLEY, SMITH, DIGGES, ELDRIDGE and O'DONNELL, JJ., and EUGENE MACKALL CHILDS, Associate Judge of the Fifth Judicial Circuit and ROBERT F. SWEENEY, Chief Judge of the District Court of Maryland, specially assigned.

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

The issue presented here is whether, under the peculiar facts of the case, the petitioner's conviction on bribery charges, at the conclusion of his second trial, was in violation of the prohibition against double jeopardy.

The petitioner, Leonard Saul Blondes, was a member of the General Assembly of Maryland from 1962 through 1970. In May 1971, Blondes was indicted by the Grand Jury of

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