Brown v. State

On 18 April 1966 David Phillip Brown (appellant) and Jerry Wayne Montgomery were jointly indicted, the grand jury of Baltimore County presenting that on 4 May 1965 they “* * * feloniously, wilfully and of their deliberately premeditated malice aforethought, did kill and murder Richard Leroy Greene * * *.” On June 2, 1967 the Circuit Court for Baltimore County denied appellant’s motion to dismiss indictments against him 1 and an appeal therefrom was noted. We affirmed the order denying the motion, holding that the delay from indictment to trial was less than substantial and that appellant had…