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EDWARDS v. STATE

[No. 75, October Term, 1949.]

194 Md. 387 (1950)

71 A.2d 487

EDWARDS v. STATE (Two Appeals in One Record)

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided February 8, 1950.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. McWilliams and Ridgely P. Melvin, Jr., for the appellant.

Kenneth C. Proctor, Assistant Attorney General, and Anselm Sodaro, Assistant State's Attorney for Baltimore City, with whom were Hall Hammond, Attorney General, J. Bernard Wells, State's Attorney for Baltimore City, and James C. Morton, Jr., State's Attorney for Anne Arundel County, on the brief, for the appellee.

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

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

The appellant, Thomas Alexander Edwards was indicted, on two separate indictments, for the murders of John L. Mahlan and Mary Kline on September 17th, 1948, in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. The cases were removed to Baltimore City. To both indictments he pleaded not guilty and elected to be tried by the court without a jury. He was found guilty in both cases of murder in the first degree and, after motions for new...

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