Mazer v. State

The defendant-appellant, Mazer, was convicted on a charge of pandering in a jury trial in the Criminal Court of Baltimore. He was sentenced to imprisonment and appeals. In his brief he raises five contentions in somewhat different order from that in which we state them below. These are (a) that the trial court erred in not granting a postponement of the trial; (b) that the State’s sole witness, a prostitute, was an accomplice and hence that he could not be convicted on her uncorroborated testimony; (c) that the trial court erred in failing to caution the jury as to the amount of credence to…