KNOWLES v. STATE

[No. 124, October Term, 1948.]

192 Md. 664 (1949)

65 A.2d 179

KNOWLES v. STATE

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided March 31, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jacob D. Hornstein, with whom was Maurice T. Siegel on the brief, for the appellant.

Robert E. Clapp, Jr., Special Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Hall Hammond, Attorney General, Harrison L. Winter, Assistant Attorney General, and J. Bernard Well, State's Attorney, of Baltimore City, and J. Harold Grady, Assistant State's Attorney, on the brief, for the appellee.

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


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

This is an appeal, taken in forma pauperis, Code, 1947 Supp., Art. 5, sec. 88A, from a conviction, after trial before the court without a jury, of murder in the first degree and sentence to death. At the argument and in his brief, and apparently at the trial, appellant did not deny the killing — or the murder — but only the premeditation necessary to constitute murder in the first degree. On Sunday...

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