FORD v. STATE

[No. 94, September Term, 1974.]

274 Md. 546 (1975)

337 A.2d 81

FORD v. STATE OF MARYLAND

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided April 17, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald A. Kroop for appellant.

David B. Allen, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, Clarence W. Sharp, Assistant Attorney General, Milton B. Allen, State's Attorney for Baltimore City, and Charles Kountz, Assistant State's Attorney for Baltimore City, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before SINGLEY, SMITH, DIGGES, LEVINE, ELDRIDGE and O'DONNELL, JJ.


DIGGES, J., delivered the opinion of the Court. ELDRIDGE and O'DONNELL, JJ., dissent and O'DONNELL, J., filed a dissenting opinion in which ELDRIDGE, J., concurs at page 556 infra.

Following affirmance by the Court of Special Appeals of the petitioner's conviction in the Criminal Court of Baltimore for using "a handgun in the commission of a crime," this Court granted certiorari to examine the contention of the petitioner, Leon Stephen Ford, that his conviction...

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