PURVIS v. STATE

No. 674, September Term, 1974.

27 Md. App. 713 (1975)

343 A.2d 898

EDWARD W. PURVIS, THE YOUNGER v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided September 5, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Franklin Gosnell, Assigned Public Defender, for appellant.

Leroy Handwerger, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, Milton B. Allen, State's Attorney for Baltimore City, and James Sherbin, Assistant State's Attorney for Baltimore City, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before MORTON and GILBERT, JJ., and WILLIAM J. O'DONNELL, Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals of Maryland, specially assigned.


O'DONNELL, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

The appellant, Edward W. Purvis, Jr., was convicted on May 31, 1974, following a jury trial in the Criminal Court of Baltimore (Judge Perry G. Bowen presiding)1 upon counts of two indictments charging, inter alia, two separate acts of distribution of heroin, as well as a count in a third indictment which charged larceny after trust.

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