Legal Opinion
Franklin v. State
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided January 10, 1972No. [No. 282, September Term, 1971.]PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHammond, C. J.
Appellant Franklin, who was sixteen years old in 1969 when the offense was committed, was tried for and convicted of robbery with a deadly weapon in the Criminal Court of Baltimore when he was seventeen. Both when he was charged and when he was convicted, Md. Code 1957 (1969 Cum. Supp.), Art. 26, § 70-1 (c), defined a child subject to the laws governing juvenile cases as a person under the age of sixteen, whereas the law applicable to the counties of Maryland made persons under the age of eighteen juveniles. Since he was not a juvenile in Baltimore City, Franklin was not brought before the…
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