# Dobbs v. State

> Court of Appeals of Maryland · April 9, 1925 · 148 Md. 34

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/3490157

## Case

- **Full name:** CLAUDE F. DOBBS Et Al. vs. STATE OF MARYLAND
- **Court:** Court of Appeals of Maryland
- **Decided:** April 9, 1925
- **Citations:** 148 Md. 34; 129 A. 275; 1925 Md. LEXIS 3
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Opinion of the court
- **Judges:** Bond, Patti, Urner, Adkins, Oíeetjtt, Digges, Parke, Walsh
- **Cited by:** 34 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- No negative treatment found by the automated citator. That is not the same as a confirmation that the case is good law; read the citing cases.
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/3490157

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- applying the inducement rule to the conduct of the State's Attorney, who told the defendant, " 'Tell the truth about it. You’ve got nothing to fear if you tell the truth, and you weren't in it' "

## Opinion text

There being, in the opinion of a majority of the Court, error in the rulings involved in the exceptions in this case, relating to the Littman robbery, numbered forty to fifty-nine, inclusive, it is by the Court of Appeals of Maryland this 9th day of April, 1925,
Ordered : That the judgments against each appellant in this case be and the same are hereby reversed and the case remanded as to each for a new trial.

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