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ALLEN v. STATE

No. 85, Initial Term, 1967.

1 Md. App. 249 (1967)

229 A.2d 446

WILLARD LEE ALLEN v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided May 8, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Willis Ritter, with whom was Robert A. DiCicco on the brief, for appellant.

Alfred J. O'Ferrall, III, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, Samuel A. Green, Jr., State's Attorney for Baltimore County, and Richard D. Byrd, Assistant State's Attorney for Baltimore County, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before ANDERSON, MORTON, ORTH, and THOMPSON, JJ., and MENCHINE, J., Associate Judge of the Third Judicial Circuit, specially assigned.

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

On July 3, 1962, Willard Lee Allen, the appellant, walked into the Central Police Station in Baltimore City and stated that he had killed a woman in a motel on Route 50 in Baltimore County in the early morning hours of Sunday, July 1, 1962. He described the homicide and disposal of the body in considerable detail. At the request of the Maryland authorities the Philadelphia police, the same afternoon, broke open the...

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