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Title: Edwardsen v. State
Author : Court Of Appeals Of Maryland
Release Date : January 16, 1963
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 53 KB

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James Frederick Reid, tried by the court in the Criminal Court of Baltimore, was found guilty of having the narcotic drug codeine in his possession (1st count of indictment 4405), and of having the barbiturate secobarbital in his possession (1st count of indictment 4404). Prosecuted as a subsequent offender as warned in an addendum to indictment 4404, he was found to have previously been convicted of possession of the barbiturate secobarbital proscribed by Code, Art. 27, Â§ 313 C (a). The court imposed a sentence of 1 year on the conviction of the current offense under indictment 4404 to run concurrently with a sentence of 2 years it imposed on the addendum. Although appellant does not question these sentences, we observe that this was error. Code, Art. 27, Â§ 313 C (b) merely authorizes a greater punishment upon conviction of a current offense when the accused is found to be a subsequent offender than when he is not. It does not authorize a sentence upon being found a subsequent