Hicks v. State
Decision Date | 18 February 1970 |
Docket Number | No. 282,282 |
Citation | 262 A.2d 66,9 Md.App. 25 |
Parties | John HICKS, Jr. v. STATE of Maryland. |
Court | Court of Special Appeals of Maryland |
William H. Zinman, Baltimore, with whom was John D. Hackett, Baltimore, on brief, for appellant.
Donald Needle, Asst. Atty. Gen., with whom were Francis B. Burch, Atty. Gen., Charles E. Moylan, jr., State's Atty., George A. Eichhorn, III, Asst. State's Atty., for Baltimore City, on brief, for appellee.
Before MURPHY, C. J., and ANDERSON, MORTON, ORTH and THOMPSON, JJ.
John Hicks, Jr. (appellant) was found guilty by a jury in the Criminal Court of Baltimore of three offenses, jointly tried, of robbery with a deadly weapon. The judgments are reversed.
When the indictments came of for trial, appellant was again arraigned, entered pleas of not guilty, and prayed a trial by jury. The court said to the Clerk, The transcript of the proceedings reads: '(The prospective jury panel was sworn and questioned on their voir dire).' It is obvious from the transcript, however, that the jury was not then questioned on their voir dire, and we can construe it in no other way. The transcript continued immediately thereafter:
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