Case Name: STATE OF MARYLAND v. JOSEPH JOHNSON
Court: Court of Appeals of Maryland
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Decision Date: 1975-06-25
Citations: 275 Md. 291
Docket Number: No. 238
Parties: STATE OF MARYLAND v. JOSEPH JOHNSON
Judges: 
Reporter: Maryland Reports
Volume: 275
Pages: 291–294

Head Matter:
STATE OF MARYLAND v. JOSEPH JOHNSON
[No. 238,
September Term, 1974.]
Decided June 25, 1975.
[See opinion 23 Md. App. 131].
The cause was argued before Murphy, C. J., and Singley, Smith, Digges, Levine, Eldridge and O’Donnell, JJ.
James G. Klair, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, and Clarence W. Sharp, Assistant Attorney General, on the brief, for appellant.
Arnold M. Zerwitz, Assistant Public Defender, with whom were Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, and Norman N. Yankelhw, District Public Defender, on the brief, for appellee.
Smith, J., dissents and filed a dissenting opinion at page 292 infra.

Opinion:
Per Curiam:
This Court, having granted a writ of certiorari and in accordance with Maryland Rule 811 b 3 having determined that no error of law appears in the decision, adopts the opinion of Judge Thompson for the Court of Special Appeals in Johnson v. State, 23 Md. App. 131, 326 A. 2d 38 (1974) and affirms the judgment of the Court of Special Appeals.
Judgment affirmed with costs.