SCARBOROUGH v. STATE

No. 388, September Term, 1981.

50 Md. App. 276 (1981)

437 A.2d 672

WILLIAM SCARBOROUGH v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided December 4, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard L. Cardin, Assigned Public Defender, for appellant.

Alexander L. Cummings, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Stephen H. Sachs, Attorney General, William A. Swisher, State's Attorney for Baltimore City, and Keith Matthews, Assistant State's Attorney for Baltimore City, on the brief, for appellee.

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


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

In this case we are primarily concerned with a novel procedure, adopted by the trial judge in a robbery prosecution, in which separate juries were empaneled to try the appellant and a co-defendant simultaneously.

William Scarborough, appellant, was charged along with Maurice King with robbery with a deadly weapon and a handgun violation. The two defendants were...

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