ROSS v. STATE

No. 84, September Term, 1985.

308 Md. 337 (1987)

519 A.2d 735

ARTHUR ROSS, JR. v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

January 14, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John L. Kopolow, Asst. Public Defender (Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, on the brief), Baltimore, for appellant.

Jillyn K. Schulze, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Stephen H. Sachs, Atty. Gen., on the brief), Baltimore, for appellee.

Argued before SMITH, ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY, COUCH and McAULIFFE, JJ., and CHARLES E. ORTH, Jr., Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals (retired), specially assigned.


McAULIFFE, Judge.

This appeal raises the question of whether use of the short form indictment specified by Maryland Code (1957, 1982 Repl.Vol.) Art. 27, § 616 to charge all forms of murder adequately protects a defendant's constitutional right of fair notice and due process. We hold that it does.

The Appellant, Arthur Ross, Jr., was indicted jointly with Robert Clark on charges of "feloniously, wilfully and of their deliberately premeditated malice aforethought...

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