Bryant v. Taylor

FRANK A. KAUFMAN, Senior District Judge.

Bryant, convicted on April 6, 1978 in the Circuit Court for St. Mary’s County, Maryland, of storehouse breaking, appealed his conviction to Maryland’s intermediate appellate court, the Court of Special Appeals. In that court, Bryant challenged the jurisdiction of the trial court on the ground that the record did not establish when or if the United States had acquired the post office which constituted the storehouse and that therefore it was not clear whether there was jurisdiction in a Maryland state court to try the offense. That issue had not been…