KIER v. STATE

[No. 207, October Term, 1956.]

213 Md. 556 (1957)

132 A.2d 494

KIER v. STATE

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided June 6, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David N. Bates and William H. Murphy for appellant.

Alexander Harvey, II, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were C. Ferdinand Sybert, Attorney General, and Frank H. Newell, III, State's Attorney for Baltimore County, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before COLLINS, HENDERSON, HAMMOND and PRESCOTT, JJ., and KINTNER, J., Associate Judge of the Second Judicial Circuit, specially assigned.


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

This appeal is from a judgment and sentence to death after a conviction of first degree murder by two judges of the Circuit Court for Baltimore County, sitting without a jury. The only question raised on appeal concerns the introduction into evidence of an alleged confession and other statements made by the accused prior to the trial. At the conclusion of the State's case the defense moved for a directed verdict,...

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