Powell v. State

Appellant was convicted by the court sitting without a jury of robbery with a deadly weapon and common-law assault on three separate indictments and sentenced to a total of forty years imprisonment.

Appellant contends on this appeal that his reindictment as commanded by Schowgurow v. State, 240 Md. 121 was invalid since the Grand Jury continued to be illegally constituted as no new law had been enacted by the State Legislature “so that it is illegal and unconstitutional to try him under a non-existing law.” Virtually the same contention was raised and rejected in Hutchinson v. State, 1 Md.…