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JOHNSON AND WALTERS v. STATE

No. 663, September Term, 1975.

30 Md. App. 512 (1976)

352 A.2d 371

ISAAC NEWTON JOHNSON AND CHARLES TERRELL WALTERS v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided March 3, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul Mark Sandler, with whom were Cohan, Altman & Sandler on the brief, for appellant Charles Terrell Walters. Submitted on brief by Julius E. Schindler, Assigned Public Defender, for appellant Isaac Newton Johnson.

Alexander L. Cummings, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, John S. Hollyday, State's Attorney for Washington County, Darrow Glaser, Deputy State's Attorney for Washington County and Robert W. Hamilton, Deputy State's Attorney for Washington County on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before THOMPSON, MOYLAN, MENCHINE and LOWE, JJ.

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

Because the use of prior offenses in cross-examinations to impeach criminal defendants who choose to testify has been limited to criminal convictions, Mason v. State, 242 Md. 707, 710; Robinson v. State, 4 Md.App. 515, 532-533, it does not mean that the same limitation applies to the impeachment

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