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BRAXTON v. STATE

[No. 21, September Term, 1957.]

214 Md. 370 (1957)

135 A.2d 307

BRAXTON v. STATE

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided October 22, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James R. Compton, with whom was Leroy A. Cooper on the brief, for the appellant.

James H. Norris, Jr., Special Assistant Attorney General, with whom were C. Ferdinand Sybert, Attorney General, J. Harold Grady, State's Attorney for Baltimore City, and Thomas Nugent, Assistant State's Attorney, on the brief, for the appellee.

The cause was argued before BRUNE, C.J., and COLLINS, HENDERSON, HAMMOND and PRESCOTT, JJ.

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

Alvin Braxton was convicted by a jury of murder in the first degree for the shooting of a Baltimore City policeman, and sentenced to die by the administration of lethal gas. His appeal claims reversible error in the admission in evidence of the revolver used in the shooting, and its shells, and in the legal insufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict.

Braxton, a seventeen year old youth, with two of...

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