GOLDSBOROUGH v. STATE

No. 544, September Term, 1970.

12 Md. App. 346 (1971)

278 A.2d 623

GEORGE J. GOLDSBOROUGH, JR. v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided June 24, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George J. Goldsborough, Jr., for appellant.

Francis X. Pugh, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, and John C. North, II, State's Attorney for Talbot County, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ANDERSON, MORTON, ORTH and POWERS, JJ.


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

George J. Goldsborough, Jr., of the Maryland Bar, appeals from an order of Judge Harry E. Clark of the Circuit Court for Talbot County summarily finding him in direct criminal contempt of court for having, in the course of an opening statement to the jury in the criminal case of State v. Cole made reference to an earlier acquittal of a co-defendant by another jury in the same jurisdiction in the companion case...

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