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HAWKINS v. STATE

No. 74, September Term, 1984.

302 Md. 143 (1985)

486 A.2d 179

PAUL EUGENE HAWKINS, JR. v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

January 9, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary S. Offutt, Asst. Public Defender, Baltimore (Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, Baltimore, on brief), for appellant.

Valerie Johnston Smith, Asst. Atty. Gen., Baltimore (Stephen H. Sachs, Atty. Gen. and Bernard A. Penner, Asst. Atty. Gen., Baltimore, on brief) for appellee.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., SMITH, ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY and COUCH, JJ., and W. ALBERT MENCHINE, Associate Judge of the Court of Special Appeals (retired), Specially Assigned.

MURPHY, Chief Judge.

This case involves Maryland's enhanced punishment statute, Maryland Code (1957, 1972 Repl. Vol., 1984 Cum.Supp.) Article 27, § 643B. Subsection (c) of the statute requires the imposition of a mandatory sentence of not less than twenty-five years upon any person who, under specified conditions, is convicted a third time of a "crime of violence." As originally enacted by ch. 253 of the Acts of 1975, the statute did not include daytime housebreaking...

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