BENNETT v. STATE

[No. 165, September Term, 1962.]

230 Md. 562 (1963)

188 A.2d 142

BENNETT v. STATE

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided February 6, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. Sullivan for appellant.

Robert C. Murphy, Deputy Attorney General, with whom were Thomas B. Finan, Attorney General, and James S. Getty, State's Attorney for Allegany County, on the brief, for appellee.

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


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

Challenging the correctness of the instructions to the jury with respect to the law of self-defense, the defendant (Garnette Mae Bennett) has appealed from the judgment entered on the verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree without capital punishment.

The defendant shot and killed her husband with a shotgun in the midmorning of January 31, 1962. She did not deny the shooting, but claimed that it was done...

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