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HOUSTON v. STATE

[No. 225, September Term, 1960.]

225 Md. 403 (1961)

171 A.2d 233

HOUSTON v. STATE

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided June 5, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carl W. Bacharach, for appellant.

Clayton A. Dietrich, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Thomas B. Finan, Attorney General, and C. Osborne Duvall, State's Attorney for Anne Arundel County, on the brief, for appellee.

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

PER CURIAM:

This appeal challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to convict the appellant of murder in the first degree in a trial by the court without a jury. The accused, a negro boy eighteen years of age, was sentenced to life imprisonment. It was shown that as he was returning home about 10:30 P.M., he joined a group of boys, two of whom were fighting, and got into an argument with his older brother. The appellant ran...

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