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BALLENTINE v. STATE

[No. 170, September Term, 1981.]

293 Md. 518 (1982)

445 A.2d 1033

RODNEY BALLENTINE v. STATE OF MARYLAND

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided June 3, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ray E. Stokes for appellant.

William C. Rogers, III, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Stephen H. Sachs, Attorney General, William A. Swisher, State's Attorney for Baltimore City, and William Townsend, Assistant State's Attorney for Baltimore City, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before MURPHY, C.J., and SMITH, ELDRIDGE, COLE, DAVIDSON, RODOWSKY and COUCH, JJ.

COUCH, J., delivered the opinion of the Court. DAVIDSON, J., dissents and filed a dissenting opinion at page 526 infra.

Having entered a guilty plea to a charge of murder in the second degree, in the Criminal Court of Baltimore, for which conviction he was sentenced to imprisonment for a term of twenty-five years, Rodney Ballentine, the appellant, appealed contending his plea was involuntary. The Court of Special Appeals...

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