STATE v. WERNER

No. 136, September Term, 1983.

302 Md. 550 (1985)

489 A.2d 1119

STATE OF MARYLAND v. JEROME BUCKLER WERNER.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

April 4, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephanie J. Lane, Asst. Atty. Gen., Baltimore (Stephen H. Sachs, Atty. Gen., Baltimore, on brief), for appellant.

Harold I. Glaser, Baltimore (Henry J. Myerberg and Saundra C. Rothstein, Baltimore, on brief), for appellee.

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


ELDRIDGE, Judge.

In this criminal case, involving charges that the defendant had committed sex offenses against one of his stepdaughters, the State was allowed to elicit testimony that the defendant had committed similar offenses against another stepdaughter. The issue concerns the admissibility of such evidence under the circumstances.

I.

In 1981, Jerome Werner1 was indicted in Baltimore City on charges of incest,

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