Legal Opinion
Couser v. State
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided January 8, 1970No. [No. 43, September Term, 1969.]PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtFinan, J.
We are here presented with the issue of double jeopardy.
On April 9, 1969, this Court issued a writ of certiorari to the Court of Special Appeals. The petitioner, John Couser, had been convicted under two separate robbery indictments involving the same incident and was sentenced to serve two ten year terms which were to run consecutively. The trial was conducted in the Criminal Court of Baltimore without a jury before Judge Wolf.
A timely appeal was taken to the Court of Special Appeals for the September Term, 1967. Petitioner alleged that the trial court had committed reversible error by…
2Cases cited14 opinions
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- United States v. TateoSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Fong Foo v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
- Boone v. StateCourt of Special Appeals of Maryland · 1968
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3Cited by16 opinions
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