STOKES v. STATE

No. 149, September Term, 1987.

72 Md. App. 673 (1987)

532 A.2d 189

VINCENT S. STOKES v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

November 5, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jose Felipe Anderson, Asst. Public Defender (Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender on the brief) Baltimore, for appellant.

Ronald M. Levitan, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., Kurt L. Schmoke, State's Atty. for Baltimore City and Lawrence Doan, Asst. State's Atty. for Baltimore City, on the brief), Baltimore, for appellee.

Argued before WEANT, BLOOM and POLLITT, JJ.


BLOOM, Judge.

A jury in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City acquitted appellant, Vincent S. Stokes, of possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, simple possession of cocaine and possession of controlled paraphernalia, but convicted him of unauthorized use of an automobile. The court imposed the maximum sentence, a prison term of four years.

Appellant contends that the trial judge erred when, sua sponte, he substituted an alternate juror for...

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