Hays and Wainwright v. State

The appellants, Hays and Wainwright, were tried and convicted in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County before Judge Raine, sitting without a jury, on December 4, 1964, on charges of larceny and receiving stolen goods, and each was sentenced to serve six years in the Maryland House of Correction. Through court-appointed counsel, they appealed to this Court. At the argument before us, on October 14, 1965, the appellants’ counsel made an oral motion to reverse the convictions under Schowgurow v. State, 240 Md. 121, 213 A. 2d 475 (1965), which was filed on October 11, three days before. We heard…