Bowie v. State

The broad complaint of the appellant, Wright Weedon Bowie, is that he made a “deal” with the State and the State broke the bargain. The general cry of “Foul” takes on legal specificity in the parallel but distinct contentions 1) that an implicit grant of immunity foreclosed prosecution of the instant cases and 2) that his constitutional right to a speedy trial was infringed. Both claims were denied by Judge Samuel W. Barrick at a pretrial hearing in the Circuit Court for Frederick County, and both are here appealed. The denial of the latter is properly before us. The denial of the former was…