GASKINS v. STATE

No. 330, September Term, 1968.

7 Md. App. 99 (1969)

253 A.2d 759

GORDON C. GASKINS v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided May 27, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Karl H. Goodman and Jack B. Rubin for appellant.

Bernard L. Silbert, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, Samuel A. Green, Jr., State's Attorney for Baltimore County, L. Robert Evans, Deputy State's Attorney for Baltimore County, and Gary Huddles, Assistant State's Attorney for Baltimore County, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ANDERSON, MORTON, ORTH, and THOMPSON, JJ.


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

Appellant was found guilty of first degree murder by a jury in the Circuit Court for Howard County, and was thereafter sentenced by the court to life imprisonment under the jurisdiction of the Department of Correction. He contends on this appeal that the court erred when it refused to instruct the jury, as requested by him, that (1) "A person accused of crime may not be convicted on the uncorroborated testimony of...

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