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NIXON v. STATE

[No. 134, October Term, 1953.]

204 Md. 475 (1954)

105 A.2d 243

NIXON v. STATE

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided May 21, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ellis Levin and J. Calvin Carney, with whom were Blanchard D. Carney, Calman A. Levin and Louis M. Strauss, on the brief, for appellant.

Ambrose T. Hartman, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Edward D.E. Rollins, Attorney General, and C. Osborne Duvall, State's Attorney for Anne Arundel County, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before DELAPLAINE, COLLINS, HENDERSON and HAMMOND, JJ.

HENDERSON, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

Marcus Ray Nixon was tried by the court and a jury in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County on a charge of murder. The verdict was guilty of murder in the first degree, without capital punishment, and he was sentenced to life imprisonment. On appeal, it is urged that the evidence was legally insufficient to support a verdict of murder, although it is conceded that manslaughter was established. It is also urged...

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