Journigan v. State

Appellants, appealing after a conviction of robbery with a deadly weapon, first contend that the substitution of a judge during the course of the trial denied them a fundamental right to the presence of the same judge throughout the trial which they could not waive, as they had expressly purported to do, and then say that the privilege against self-incrimination was violated when a policeman was allowed to testify that an appellant would not try on a hat found at the scene of the crime.

Appellants went to trial on February 9, 1960, in the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County before Judge…