Dawson v. State

The appellant, Patrick Kelly Dawson, was convicted in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County for three drug-related offenses and for possession of a deadly weapon. Those convictions were affirmed by us in Dawson v. State, 14 Md. App. 18, 284 A. 2d 861. The present appeal concerns the sentencing upon those convictions.

The appellant was initially sentenced by Judge E. Mackall Childs on April 29,1971.

The lion’s share of the sentence came upon Count 1 of Indictment No. 12074, charging a violation of Article 27, § 277, the possession of marihuana. Judge Childs sentenced the defendant to a…