TAYLOR v. STATE

[No. 21, September Term, 1961.]

226 Md. 561 (1961)

174 A.2d 573

TAYLOR v. STATE

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided November 7, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry J. Goodrick, with whom was Leonard H. Lockhart on the brief, for appellant.

Clayton A. Dietrich, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Thomas B. Finan, Attorney General, J. Albert Roney, Jr., and G. Reynolds Ash, State's Attorney and Assistant State's Attorney, respectively, for Cecil County on the brief, for appellee.

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


BRUNE, C.J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

This appeal from a conviction of murder in the first degree, upon which a sentence of life imprisonment was imposed, presents questions as to: (a) the refusal of a continuance; (b) cross-examination of the defendant with regard to his previous conviction on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon; and (c) the sufficiency of the evidence.

The essential facts are stated below. One Andy Taylor, brother of the...

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