Legal Opinion
Smallwood v. State
Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
Decided April 13, 1982No. 1066, September Term, 1981PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGilbert, C. J.
This case involves a conviction for a May 1975 bank robbery 1 at a November 1980 trial on a September 1979 indictment. Expectantly, pre-indictment delay is the major issue on appeal.
THE FACTS
The record discloses that a jury in the Circuit Court for Calvert County, presided over by Judge Perry G. Bowen, Jr., found James Winston Smallwood to be one of three men who held up the Maryland Bank and Trust Company in Lexington Park, Maryland, on May 19, 1975. Smallwood was determined.by the jury to be guilty of 1) robbery with a dangerous and deadly weapon; and 2) grand larceny. For the purpose of…
2Cases cited40 opinions
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- United States v. LovascoSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
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