SNOWDEN v. STATE

No. 117, September Term, 1988.

321 Md. 612 (1991)

583 A.2d 1056

ELMER MAURICE SNOWDEN v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

January 14, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark Colvin, Asst. Public Defender (Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, Jose Felipe Anderson, Asst. Public Defender, all on brief), Baltimore, for petitioner.

Beverly Peyton Griffith, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., both on brief), Baltimore, for respondent.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY and McAULIFFE, JJ., and COLE, ADKINS and BLACKWELL (retired), Court of Appeals Judges, Specially Assigned.


COLE, Judge.

In this case we must determine whether separate convictions for assault and battery and robbery with a dangerous and deadly weapon of one victim arising out of the events of one evening are proper, or whether the lesser offense of assault and battery merges into the greater robbery offense.

The Petitioner, Elmer Maurice Snowden, was convicted in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County of first degree murder,1 robbery...

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