Calhoun v. State

Defendant-appellant, James Arthur Calhoun, pleaded guilty in the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County (Blackwell, J.) to two counts of robbery with a deadly weapon and two counts of use of a handgun in the commission of a crime of violence, arising from two separate grocery store robberies in 1978. Pursuant to Md. Ann. Code, art. 27, § 643B (1979 Cum. Supp.), he was sentenced to a total of fifty years without the possibility of parole. 1

After an appeal was taken by the defendant to this Court, the State noted a cross-appeal as authorized by Md. Cts. & Jud. Proc. Code Ann. § 12-401 (1980),…