Timbers v. State

Pur Curiam.

Convicted by a jury in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County on December 1, 1966, of grand larceny and shoplifting, and thereafter sentenced to three years imprisonment, appellant’s sole contention on this appeal is that he was illegally convicted because denied his constitutional right to counsel at his preliminary hearing.

The basic purpose of the preliminary hearing in Maryland is to determine whether to hold the accused for the action of the Grand Jury. Arrington v. Warden, 232 Md. 672. It has been repeatedly held that where, as here, the defendant enters a plea of not guilty…