GREAR v. STATE

[No. 72, October Term, 1949.]

194 Md. 335 (1950)

71 A.2d 24

GREAR v. STATE

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided January 13, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

T. Barton Harrington for the appellant.

Kenneth C. Proctor, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Hall Hammond, Attorney General, J. Bernard Wells, State's Attorney for Baltimore City, William J. O'Donnell and James F. Price, Assistant State's Attorneys, on the brief, for the appellee.

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


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

This is an appeal from a conviction of murder in the first degree and a sentence of death, after trial before two judges without a jury. About half past six on Sunday morning December 12, 1948 Patrolmen Arnold and Mike were shot on Little Pine Street, an alley, between Biddle Street and Greenwillow Street. On December 30, 1948 Arnold died of his wounds; Mike recovered. Mike and Mary Alston, a woman whom appellant, Grear...

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