Ellerba v. State

Appellant, Charles Ellerba, alias Alphonso Davis, was convicted by a jury in the Criminal Court of Baltimore (Kaplan, J.) on December 8,1977 of two charges of arson. He was thereafter sentenced to two consecutive 20-year terms. On appeal, he argues six assignments of error by the trial court: (1) appellant did not freely and voluntarily waive his right to counsel on May 31, 1977 and, therefore, it was error to admit statements made by him at a custodial interrogation on that date; (2) appellant did not breach the June 9, 1977 agreement between himself and the State in which the State promised…