COWANS AND HAYES v. STATE

[No. 228, September Term, 1964.]

238 Md. 433 (1965)

209 A.2d 552

COWANS AND HAYES v. STATE (Two Appeals in One Record)

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided April 29, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert V. Lazzaro and Harold Buchman for the appellants.

Loring E. Hawes, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Thomas B. Finan, Attorney General, Charles E. Moylan, Jr., State's Attorney for Baltimore City, and Andrew J. Graham, Assistant State's Attorney, on the brief, for the appellee.

The cause was argued before PRESCOTT, C.J., and HAMMOND, HORNEY, MARBURY and SYBERT, JJ.


PRESCOTT, C.J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

Appellants, Hayes and Cowans, were convicted in the Criminal Court of Baltimore by a judge, sitting without a jury, of two offenses of assault and two offenses of robbery, and, after denial of their motions for new trials by the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City and sentences by the trial judge, have appealed.

Two questions only are presented for our consideration: (1) Were appellants' confessions rendered...

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