Brown v. State

This is an appeal from a denial of a motion to dismiss indictments by Judge Joseph R. Byrnes in the Criminal Court of Baltimore.

On November 12, 1964 the appellant was committed to jail on four charges of robbery with a deadly weapon, two alleged to have occurred on October 24, 1964 and two on November 10, 1964. He was presented on the charges on November 19, 1964 and indicted on December 1, 1964 under indictments Nos. 4501, 4502, 4503 and 4504. He was arraigned on December 4, 1964 and pleaded “not guilty.” Trial commenced before Judge Albert L. Sklar in the Criminal Court of Baltimore without…