BRUCE v. STATE

[No. 11, September Term, 1958.]

218 Md. 87 (1958)

145 A.2d 428

BRUCE v. STATE

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided October 28, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard M. Pollitt, with whom was Vaughn E. Richardson on the brief, for the appellant.

Stedman Prescott, Jr., Deputy Attorney General, with whom were C. Ferdinand Sybert, Attorney General, and Hamilton P. Fox, Jr., State's Attorney for Wicomico County, on the brief, for the appellee.

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


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

This is an appeal by Robert Douglas Bruce (the defendant) from the judgment and sentence of the Circuit Court for Wicomico County entered on the verdict of the jury that the defendant was guilty of manslaughter.

On Sunday, December 1, 1957, the defendant, a seventeen year old youth, worked at the Spur Gasoline Station on East Main Street in Salisbury. During the early evening Noland Willey (the deceased), in...

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