MATTHEWS v. STATE

No. 42, September Term, 1985.

304 Md. 281 (1985)

498 A.2d 655

ROBERT WILLIAM MATTHEWS v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

October 10, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Murphy, Jr., Baltimore, for appellant.

Deborah K. Chasanow, Asst. Atty. Gen., Baltimore (Stephen H. Sachs, Atty. Gen., and Mark D. McCurdy, Asst. Atty. Gen., Baltimore, on brief), for appellee.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and SMITH, ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY, COUCH and McAULIFFE, JJ.


McAULIFFE, Judge.

We here decide that a trial judge lacked authority to commence a period of probation while the Appellant was serving a jail sentence for the same offense, but that Appellant's probation was properly revoked upon proof of criminal activity occurring between the grant of probation and its formal commencement.

On January 29, 1982 Judge Martin Wolff sentenced Robert William Matthews to five years imprisonment, suspended the execution of all except...

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