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BROOKS v. STATE

No. 404, September Term, 1975.

32 Md. App. 116 (1976)

359 A.2d 217

JAMES ELLSWORTH BROOKS AND ROBERT ARTHUR BROOKS v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided June 28, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank M. Kratovil, Assigned Public Defender, with whom were Edward P. Camus, District Public Defender, and Lois C. Rose on the brief, for appellants.

James G. Klair, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, Robert C. Nally, State's Attorney for Charles County, and T. Myron Loyd, Assistant State's Attorney for Charles County, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before MOORE, LOWE and MELVIN, JJ.

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

James Ellsworth Brooks and Robert Arthur Brooks were tried jointly by a jury in Charles County (Mitchell, J. presiding), and found guilty of robbery with a deadly weapon on three separate indictments. The main contention of each on appeal is that the trial judge improperly admitted into evidence confessions of each of the defendants.

On September 26, 1974, the I.G.A. Foodliner store in Waldorf, Maryland, was...

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