Opinion
[No. 119, September Term, 1964.]
Decided January 7, 1965.
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Baltimore County (TURNBULL, J.).
Roy Norris was indicted by the grand jury in twenty-seven cases of bribery. From the trial court's order dismissing the indictments, the State appeals.
Order affirmed; costs to be paid by the County Council of Baltimore County.
The cause was argued before PRESCOTT, C.J., and HORNEY, MARBURY, SYBERT and OPPENHEIMER, JJ.
Fred Oken, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Thomas B. Finan, Attorney General, Frank H. Newell, III, State's Attorney, and Austin W. Brizendine, Assistant State's Attorney, respectively, for Baltimore County, on the brief, for appellant.
W. Giles Parker, with whom was Alan H. Murrell on the brief, for appellee.
This is a companion case to State v. Comes, 237 Md. 271. The cases were argued together; the facts being almost identical. The same principles of law involved there are involved here.
For the reasons stated in Comes, the order of the trial judge dismissing the indictments herein must be affirmed.
Order affirmed; costs to be paid by the County Council of Baltimore County.