Legal Opinion
Ford v. State
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided April 17, 1975No. [No. 94, September Term, 1974.]PublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtDigges, J.
Eldridge and O’Donnell, JJ., dissent and O’Donnell, J., filed a dissenting opinion in which Eldridge, J., concurs at page 556 infra.
Following affirmance by the Court of Special Appeals of the petitioner’s conviction in the Criminal Court of Baltimore for using “a handgun in the commission of a crime,” this Court granted certiorari to examine the contention of the petitioner, Leon Stephen Ford, that his conviction by the jury should be set aside because “it is [so] inconsistent, repugnant or absurd ... as to be void and meaningless.” Since in our view this issue must be resolved in a manner…
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