WRIGHT v. STATE

No. 56, September Term, 1994.

339 Md. 399 (1995)

HUGHES EUGENE WRIGHT v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

August 23, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George E. Burns, Jr., Asst. Public Defender (Stephen E. Harris, Public Defender, both on brief), Baltimore, for petitioner.

Gwynn X. Kinsey, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., both on brief), Baltimore, for respondent.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, CHASANOW, KARWACKI, BELL and RAKER, JJ.


RAKER, Judge.

In this case, we are asked to determine whether Maryland has jurisdiction to prosecute the petitioner for theft where there is no evidence that the conversion occurred in Maryland. We answer in the affirmative and affirm, on different grounds, the judgment of the Court of Special Appeals.

I.

Petitioner Hughes Eugene Wright, a truck driver employed by the Wheatley Trucking Company in Cambridge, Dorchester County, Maryland, left the company...

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