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BROWN v. STATE

[No. 219, September Term, 1958.]

220 Md. 29 (1959)

150 A.2d 895

BROWN v. STATE

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided May 8, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Clayton A. Dietrich, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were C. Ferdinand Sybert, Attorney General, Hamilton P. Fox, Jr., State's Attorney for Wicomico County, and C. Burnam Mace, State's Attorney for Dorchester County, on the brief, for appellee.

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

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

Johnnie Brown, a Negro, appeals from a judgment and sentence of death following a jury's verdict that he was guilty of murder in the first degree for shooting a policeman as he was being taken to the station house. It is contended that the trial court erred in refusing to examine the jurors on their voir dire as to possible prejudice against Negroes, that it was error to admit evidence tending to prove prior...

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