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STATE v. MAGWOOD

[No. 118, September Term, 1980.]

290 Md. 615 (1981)

432 A.2d 446

STATE OF MARYLAND v. AARON PHILIP MAGWOOD

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided July 2, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Diane G. Goldsmith, Assistant Attorney General, with whom was Stephen H. Sachs, Attorney General, on the brief, for appellant.

Gary W. Christopher, Assistant Public Defender, with whom was Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before MURPHY, C.J., and SMITH, DIGGES, ELDRIDGE, COLE, DAVIDSON and RODOWSKY, JJ.

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

At common law, jurors were "prisoners of the court ... kept together without meat, drink, fire or candle till they [were] agreed."1 Fortunately for those chosen citizens, modern jury service is less onerous — how much so being the issue in this criminal cause. At the instance of the State, we here review the judgment of the Court of Special Appeals in Magwood v. State,

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