could be fairly advised of the subject matter, then the title will be deemed to have complied with the constitutional requirement.
As Judge (later Chief Judge) Prescott for the Court stated in Leonardo v. Board of County Commissioners of St. Mary's County, 214 Md. 287, 298, 299, 134 A.2d 284, 289 (1957), cert. denied, 355 U.S. 906, reh. denied, 355 U.S. 967:
"Section 29 of Article 3 of the Constitution has been involved in cases before this Court on numerous occasions. It has been included in the last three Constitutions of this State, and its purposes are to prevent the combination in one act of several distinct and incongruous subjects, and to inform the members of the legislature of the nature of the bills introduced, which are usually read tothe armed robbery and first-degree felony murder of Bartlett Marston in 1989. The defendant, Rodney J.D. Smith, was represented by Robert Massey, the Public Defender, and the defendant, James E. Smith, Jr., was represented by J. Daniel Freemon. Michael McConnell was also charged as a co-defendant and was represented by counsel. On November 20, 1990, McConnell pled guilty to second-degree murder and unrelated charges, and was sentenced to seventy years. As part of the guilty plea agreement, McConnell promised to testify truthfully in the prosecution against the Smiths.
The Smiths' trial began on May 6, 1991, and by May 8, 1991, a jury was selected and sworn. After the parties announced ready and the trial was about to begin, the State requested a recess because they had learned that