Hurley v. State

Appellant was found guilty by a jury in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County of robbery with a deadly weapon and was thereafter sentenced by the court to seven years under the jurisdiction of the Department of Correction. His principal contentions on this appeal are that the court committed prejudicial error when it refused to postpone his trial, and when it failed to grant his several motions for a mistrial.

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On March 22, 1968 appellant’s counsel filed a pretrial motion under Maryland Rule 735, claiming prejudice and requesting that he be tried separately from his jointly-indicted…