JEFFERSON v. STATE

[No. 252, September Term, 1961.]

228 Md. 331 (1962)

179 A.2d 876

JEFFERSON v. STATE

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided April 16, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Earl Shipley, with whom was Donald M. Smith on the brief, for the appellant.

Thomas W. Jamison, III, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Thomas B. Finan, Attorney General, and Donald C. Sponseller, State's Attorney for Carroll County, on the brief, for the appellee.

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


Decided April 16, 1962. Certiorari denied, 371 U.S. 868.

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

The appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree in a trial before the court without a jury and sentenced to life imprisonment. He challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to convict, and also contends that the court erred in admitting into evidence a statement made to the police by the appellant, and in permitting an officer to testify from...

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