HUGHES v. STATE

No. 133, September Term, 1979.

43 Md. App. 698 (1979)

406 A.2d 330

ALFRED DONNELL HUGHES v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided October 18, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nancy Louise Cook, Assistant Public Defender, with whom was Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, on the brief, for appellant.

Ray E. Stokes, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Stephen H. Sachs, Attorney General, William A. Swisher, State's Attorney for Baltimore City, and Peter Semel, Assistant State's Attorney for Baltimore City, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before LOWE, MASON and COUCH, JJ.


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

The primary question raised by appellant is whether the denial of an oral motion for a trial date change offered on day of trial denied appellant his right to counsel of his own choosing. The question is couched designedly to emphasize what is urged as a denial of a constitutional right, and as well, to permit peripheral arguments to be interwoven as support for his position. One such peripheral contention which might...

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