Bane v. State

ROBERT M. BELL, Judge.

The issue presented in this case is whether separate convictions of storehouse breaking and stealing 1 may be sustained when but one breaking occurred, involving, however, two separate businesses, operated from offices located in the same building and separated from each other only by a hallway and unlocked and open doors. By affirming the judgments of the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County, which imposed separate, consecutive sentences, the Court of Special Appeals answered in the affirmative. We granted the petitioner’s petition for certiorari and now reverse.

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