MADISON v. STATE

[No. 148, October Term, 1951.]

200 Md. 1 (1952)

87 A.2d 593

MADISON v. STATE

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided April 4, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James S. Morrow, Jr., with whom was Thomas J. Kenney on the brief, for the appellant.

Francis D. Murnaghan, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Hall Hammond, Attorney General, Anselm Sodaro, State's Attorney for Baltimore City, William H. Maynard, Deputy State's Attorney, and William C. Rogers, Jr., Assistant State's Attorney, on the brief, for the appellee.

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


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

This is an appeal from conviction of murder in the first degree and sentence of death.

On Saturday, April 28, 1951 about half-past eight in the morning, Zelig Gerstein, the proprietor of a small grocery store at 417 North Fremont Avenue, between Mulberry and Franklin Streets, was killed by a bullet fired, at close range, from a pistol in defendant's hand. The court, in...

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