HAZEL v. STATE

[No. 22, September Term, 1961 (Adv.)]

226 Md. 254 (1961)

173 A.2d 187

HAZEL v. STATE

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided July 25, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Milton B. Allen and Jacques E. Leeds for appellant.

William J. McCarthy, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Thomas B. Finan, Attorney General, Joseph S. Kaufman, Deputy Attorney General, Saul A. Harris and John C. Weiss, State's Attorney and Assistant State's Attorney, respectively, of Baltimore City, on the brief, for appellee.

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


Decided July 25, 1961. Certiorari denied, 368 U.S. 1004.

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

Hazel, the appellant, was tried on a charge of rape by the Criminal Court of Baltimore, three judges sitting without a jury. He was found sane and guilty as charged, and sentenced to death. In the appeal to this Court sanity was not an issue, the sole question argued and decided being the sufficiency of the evidence to support the finding of guilt. The...

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