JAMES v. STATE

[No. 137, October Term, 1948.]

193 Md. 31 (1949)

65 A.2d 888

JAMES v. STATE

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided April 27, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Murphy, with whom was Charles H. Houston on the brief, for appellant.

Harrison L. Winter, Assistant Attorney General with whom were Hall Hammond, Attorney General, J. Bernard Wells, State's Attorney for Baltimore City, Anselm Sodaro and Alan H. Murrell, Assistant State's Attorney for Baltimore City, on the brief, for the appellee.

The cause was argued before MARBURY, C.J., and DELAPLAINE, COLLINS, GRASON, HENDERSON, and MARKELL, JJ.


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

This is an appeal in forma pauperis from a sentence to death on a verdict, by the court without a jury, of guilty of murder in the first degree.

On July 6, 1948, a few minutes after noon, Marsha Brill, eleven years old, was stabbed with a large knife by a colored man who came up Glen Avenue or out of the bushes on the side of Glen Avenue. She died of the wound at Union Memorial Hospital early the same...

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