Barton v. State

On September 7, 1966, the appellant was convicted of robbery with a deadly weapon under one indictment and of carrying concealed a deadly weapon and of being a rogue and vagabond under another indictment, by a jury in the Criminal Court of Baltimore. He was sentenced to imprisonment for a term of 5 years on the first conviction and to imprisonment for a term of 2 years on the other convictions, the sentences to run consecutively.

Marion Charles Whalen, also charged with the crimes, pleaded guilty at a trial held prior to that of the defendant and testified for the State. He said that, on the…