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COUSINS v. STATE

[No. 123, September Term, 1975.]

277 Md. 383 (1976)

354 A.2d 825

COUSINS v. STATE OF MARYLAND

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Certiorari denied December 13, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William T. Wood for appellant.

Arrie W. Davis, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, David B. Allen, Assistant Attorney General, Andrew L. Sonner, State's Attorney for Montgomery County, and Ronald G. Scheraga, Assistant State's Attorney for Montgomery County, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before SINGLEY, SMITH, DIGGES, LEVINE, ELDRIDGE and O'DONNELL, JJ., and RAYMOND G. THIEME, Associate Judge of the District Court of Maryland for District 7, specially assigned.

Certiorari denied, Supreme Court of the United States, December 13, 1976.

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

In this case we are presented with the question of whether successive trials on charges arising from what is claimed to be the same criminal transaction are prohibited by the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution or by common law principles pertaining to double jeopardy applicable in this State...

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